Newly published in vitro research reveals that the ability of Zika virus (ZIKV) to infect glial cells in the developing brain is mediated by the Gas6-AXL pathway, and that Aravive Biologic's engineered decoy AXL receptor, ...
Jan 10, 2017
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When it comes to cell types, stem cells have unlimited potential—literally. These self-renewing cells, which are capable of giving rise to any cell type in the body, reside in specialized microenvironments known as niches. ...
Mar 15, 2023
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(Medical Xpress)—A pair of researchers working at the University of Dundee in the U.K. has discovered a new step during vertebrate neurogenesis—the process by which progenitor cells develop into neurons in embryos. In ...
A research group led by Dr. Haruhisa Inoue, Professor of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, and Researcher Dr. Takayuki Kondo of CiRA discovered that the transplantation of human iPS ...
Jul 7, 2014
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In both cell cultures and mouse models, a drug used to treat Hepatitis C effectively protected and rescued neural cells infected by the Zika virus—and blocked transmission of the virus to mouse fetuses.
Jan 25, 2018
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Treating traumatic brain injury (TBI) using stem cell therapy is an important area of current research. However, injecting stem cells into the central nervous system has serious drawbacks, including intracranial hemorrhage ...
Oct 29, 2015
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For the first time, researchers have implicated the gene CHCHD2 in Huntington's disease (HD)—an incurable genetic neurodegenerative disorder—and identified the gene as a potentially new therapeutic target. In a brain ...
Aug 22, 2024
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New Rochelle, NY, June 23, 2016 -Replacing dopamine-producing cells in the brain represents a promising therapeutic approach in Parkinson's disease, and a new study shows how post-transplantation gamma-ray irradiation can ...
Jun 23, 2016
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Neural progenitor cells (NPC) derived from congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) affected and non-affected twins show different rates of virus infection and different RNA expression of genes associated with neural development. The ...
Feb 2, 2018
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Professor Jose Miguel Soria, a member of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, has co-directed with Professor Manuel Monleón of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia a study on the compatibility ...
Nov 29, 2012
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