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Posted By: Pundit on Saturday, July 02, 2005 4:13:44 PM
Subject: Regrow brain tissue - gdnf glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor
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I have one word: "wow".

 

I wonder what would happen if they injected umbilical cord blood or blastocyst stem cells directly into my brain.

 

an experimental treatment has regrown brain tissue destroyed by Parkinson's disease

 

When Professor Seth Love, from the University of Bristol, examined the brain of the 62-year-old patient who had been using GDNF, he discovered that the dopamine-containing nerve fibres had sprouted back.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1677590,00.html

 

 

 

 
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