{"id":31526,"date":"2016-10-30T05:47:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T12:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/neurons-from-stem-cells-replace-damaged-neurons-precisely-rewiring-into-the-brain"},"modified":"2017-04-26T12:58:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:58:54","slug":"neurons-from-stem-cells-replace-damaged-neurons-precisely-rewiring-into-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/neurons-from-stem-cells-replace-damaged-neurons-precisely-rewiring-into-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Neurons from stem cells replace damaged neurons, precisely rewiring into the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neurons-from-stem-cells-replace-damaged-neurons-precisely-rewiring-into-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"Neuronal transplants\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neurons-from-stem-cells-replace-damaged-neurons-precisely-rewiring-into-the-brain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"432\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>As shown in this <em>in vivo<\/em> two-photon image, neuronal transplants (blue) connect with host neurons (yellow) in the adult mouse brain in a highly specific manner, rebuilding neural networks lost upon injury. (credit: Sofia Grade\/LMU\/Helmholtz Zentrum M\u00fcnchen)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>Embryonic neural stem cells transplanted into damaged areas of the visual cortex of adult mice were able to differentiate into pyramidal cells \u2014 forming normal synaptic connections, responding to visual stimuli, and integrating into neural networks \u2014 researchers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.en.uni-muenchen.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">LMU Munich<\/a>, the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.neuro.mpg.de\/home\" target=\"_blank\"> Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology in Martinsried<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helmholtz-muenchen.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">Helmholtz Zentrum M\u00fcnchen<\/a> have demonstrated.<\/p>\n<p>The adult human brain has very little ability to compensate for nerve-cell loss, so biomedical researchers and clinicians are exploring the possibility of using transplanted nerve cells to replace neurons that have been irreparably damaged as a result of trauma or disease, leading to a lifelong neurological deficit.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/neurons-from-stem-cells-replace-damaged-neurons-precisely-rewiring-into-the-brain\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/neurons-from-stem-cells-replace-da...-the-brain<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As shown in this in vivo two-photon image, neuronal transplants (blue) connect with host neurons (yellow) in the adult mouse brain in a highly specific manner, rebuilding neural networks lost upon injury. (credit: Sofia Grade\/LMU\/Helmholtz Zentrum M\u00fcnchen) Embryonic neural stem cells transplanted into damaged areas of the visual cortex of adult mice were able to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31526","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=31526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56228,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31526\/revisions\/56228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}