{"id":26499,"date":"2016-06-06T01:31:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T08:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/chronic-stroke-patients-safely-recover-after-injection-of-human-stem-cells"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:57:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:57:45","slug":"chronic-stroke-patients-safely-recover-after-injection-of-human-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/chronic-stroke-patients-safely-recover-after-injection-of-human-stem-cells","title":{"rendered":"Chronic stroke patients safely recover after injection of human stem cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chronic-stroke-patients-safely-recover-after-injection-of-human-stem-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Injecting specially prepared human adult stem cells directly into the brains of chronic stroke patients proved safe and effective in restoring motor (muscle) function in a small clinical trial led by <a href=\"http:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford University School of Medicine<\/a> investigators.<\/p>\n<p>The 18 patients had suffered their first and only stroke between six months and three years before receiving the injections, which involved drilling a small hole through their skulls.<\/p>\n<p>For most patients, at least a full year had passed since their stroke \u2014 well past the time when further recovery might be hoped for. In each case, the stroke had taken place beneath the brain\u2019s outermost layer, or cortex, and had severely affected motor function. \u201cSome patients couldn\u2019t walk,\u201d Steinberg said. \u201cOthers couldn\u2019t move their arm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/chronic-stroke-patients-safely-recover-after-injection-of-human-stem-cells\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/chronic-stroke-patients-safely-rec...stem-cells<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Injecting specially prepared human adult stem cells directly into the brains of chronic stroke patients proved safe and effective in restoring motor (muscle) function in a small clinical trial led by Stanford University School of Medicine investigators. The 18 patients had suffered their first and only stroke between six months and three years before receiving [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26499","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\/26499","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67323,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26499\/revisions\/67323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}