{"id":110604,"date":"2020-07-29T12:10:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/drug-stimulation-of-neural-stem-cell-repair-leads-to-promising-impact-on-treatment-of-childhood-brain-injury"},"modified":"2020-07-29T12:10:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:10:31","slug":"drug-stimulation-of-neural-stem-cell-repair-leads-to-promising-impact-on-treatment-of-childhood-brain-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/drug-stimulation-of-neural-stem-cell-repair-leads-to-promising-impact-on-treatment-of-childhood-brain-injury","title":{"rendered":"Drug stimulation of neural stem cell repair leads to promising impact on treatment of childhood brain injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drug-stimulation-of-neural-stem-cell-repair-leads-to-promising-impact-on-treatment-of-childhood-brain-injury2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Through a cross-species study of metformin, a common drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes, a team of researchers and clinicians from the Donnelly Center and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) has shown that it could one day be possible to repair brain injury using resident cells in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one\u2019s actually shown before that you can take a drug where there\u2019s a known mechanism on endogenous stem cells and demonstrate that it\u2019s even possible to induce <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+growth\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain growth<\/a> and positive recovery,\u201d says Donald Mabbott, Program Head and Senior Scientist in the Neurosciences &amp; Mental Health program at SickKids, and co-author of a study published in <i>Nature Medicine<\/i> on July 27.<\/p>\n<p>Mabbott says metformin is a potential game-changer in terms of how childhood brain injury is treated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through a cross-species study of metformin, a common drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes, a team of researchers and clinicians from the Donnelly Center and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) has shown that it could one day be possible to repair brain injury using resident cells in the brain. \u201cNo one\u2019s actually shown [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}