All Articles Tagged As: neurons

Compounds that help protect nerve cells discovered (1/21/2010)

Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have found some compounds that improve a cell's ability to properly "fold" proteins and could lead to promising drugs for degenerative nerve diseases, including Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. ...> Full Article

Transplanted stem cells form proper brain connections (1/20/2010)

Transplanted neurons grown from embryonic stem cells can fully integrate into the brains of young animals, according to new research in the Jan. 20 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. Healthy brains have stable and precise connections between cells that are necessary for normal behavior. This new finding is the first to show that stem cells can be directed not only to become specific brain cells, but to link correctly. ...> Full Article

On your last nerve: Researchers advance understanding of stem cells (11/19/2009)

Researchers from North Carolina State University have identified a gene that tells embryonic stem cells in the brain when to stop producing nerve cells called neurons. The research is a significant advance in understanding the development of the nervous system, which is essential to addressing conditions such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders. ...> Full Article

Combinatorial therapy elicits spinal cord regeneration more than a year after injury (10/29/2009)

New research finds that adult neurons can still regenerate as long as 15 months after a spinal cord injury. The study, published by Cell Press in the October 29 issue of the journal Neuron, highlights the success of a strategy that targets multiple environmental and intrinsic obstacles known to limit nervous system plasticity and regeneration. ...> Full Article

1 small step for neurons, 1 giant leap for nerve cell repair (10/10/2009)

The repair of damaged nerve cells is a major problem in medicine today. A new study by researchers at the Montreal NeurologicaI Institute and Hospital and McGill University, is a significant advance towards a solution for neuronal repair. ...> Full Article

Antioxidant controls spinal cord development (9/20/2009)

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have discovered how one antioxidant protein controls the activity of another protein, critical for the development of spinal cord neurons. The research, publishing this week in Cell, describes a never-before known mechanism of protein control. ...> Full Article

Adult gut can generate new neurons (8/6/2009)

Animal study finding may lead to new treatments for intestinal disorders ...> Full Article

Neural stem cells offer potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease (7/22/2009)

UC Irvine scientists have shown for the first time that neural stem cells can rescue memory in mice with advanced Alzheimer's disease, raising hopes of a potential treatment for the leading cause of elderly dementia that afflicts 5.3 million people in the US. ...> Full Article

Blood stem cell growth factor reverses memory decline in mice (7/4/2009)

A human growth factor that stimulates blood stem cells to proliferate in bone marrow reverses memory impairment in mice genetically altered to develop Alzheimer's disease, a new study finds. ...> Full Article

Neural stem cell differentiation factor discovered (7/1/2009)

Neural stem cells represent the cellular backup of our brain. These cells are capable of self-renewal to form new stem cells or differentiate into neurons, astrocytes or oligodendrocytes. The receptors of the Notch family play a significant role in this process. So far, only stimulating extracellular ligands of Notch receptors had been described. Biochemists of Goethe University Medical School now describe a long time assumed but not yet identified soluble Notch inhibitor. ...> Full Article

Creating ideal neural cells for clinical use (4/15/2009)

New protocol quickly and efficiently differentiates human embryonic stem cells into committed neural precursor cells ...> Full Article

UCLA stem cells scientists make electrically active motor neurons from iPS cells (2/26/2009)

Discovery demonstrates the feasibility of using iPS-derived motor neurons to model and treat diseases ...> Full Article

Researchers generate functional neurons from somatic cells (2/25/2009)

Potential new source of motor neurons that does not require human eggs or embryos could be an enormous boon to research ...> Full Article

Stem cell transplantation benefits mice with childhood motor neuron disease (9/3/2008)

Transplanted cells developed into a small number of motor neurons and the treated mice showed improved muscular function and increased lifespan, ...> Full Article

Researchers Discover Tiny Cellular Antennae Trigger Neural Stem Cells (8/16/2008)

Scientists today reported evidence suggesting that the tiny cilia found on brain cells of mammals, thought to be vestiges of a primeval past, actually play a critical role in relaying molecular signals that spur creation of neurons in an area of the brain involved in mood, learning and memory. ...> Full Article

First disease-specific stem cells from human skin cells (8/2/2008)

Research team creates human ALS motor neurons ...> Full Article

Stem Cell Foundation plays critical funding role in major new ALS research announced today (8/1/2008)

In a breakthrough discovery a researcher has produced human stem cell lines from the cells of patients afflicted with a version of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ...> Full Article

Researchers Discover Key Gene for Making Motor Neurons (7/27/2008)

Genes evolved to ensure the generation of the diverse array of motor neuron subtypes needed for fine motor control of the limbs ...> Full Article

Nature mixes, matches genes to keep nerve cells straight (6/10/2008)

With fewer than 30,000 human genes with which to work, Nature has to mix and match to generate the myriad types of neurons or nerve cells needed to assemble the brain and nervous system. Keeping this involved process on the straight and narrow requires a clever balance of promotion and inhibition ...> Full Article

Finding clues for nerve cell repair (6/7/2008)

A new study identifies a key mechanism for the normal development of motor nerve cells (motor neurons) - cells that control muscles ...> Full Article

Brain cells help neighboring nerves regenerate (5/28/2008)

Researchers have uncovered a completely unexpected way that the brain repairs nerve damage, wherein cells known as astrocytes deliver a protective protein to nearby neurons. ...> Full Article

Stem cell funding for Parkinson's Disease (3/8/2008)

The Parkinson's Disease Society (PD) has announced funding of £170k to the University of Bristol for research into how to make stem cells produce dopamine and live longer after they have been transplanted into animals. ...> Full Article

Bucks for Brains team brings in $4.7 million (2/19/2008)

The Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center (KSCIRC) at the University of Louisville has received three federal grants totaling $4.7 million to find therapies for spinal cord injuries. KSCIRC also will receive at $300,000 grant from the Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust. ...> Full Article

RNA-Associated Introns Guide Nerve-Cell Channel Production, Researchers Find (2/7/2008)

Implications for Studying Learning, Memory, and Neurological Diseases ...> Full Article