{"id":70986,"date":"2017-07-18T02:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T09:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/neural-stem-cells-steered"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:01:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:01:07","slug":"neural-stem-cells-steered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/neural-stem-cells-steered","title":{"rendered":"Neural stem cells steered by electric fields can repair brain damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neural-stem-cells-steered.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"electrical stimulation of the brain\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neural-stem-cells-steered.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"156\"><b><center>Electrical stimulation of the rat brain to move neural stem cells (credit: Jun-Feng Feng et al.\/ Stem Cell Reports)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Electric fields can be used to guide transplanted human neural stem cells \u2014 cells that can develop into various brain tissues \u2014 to repair brain damage in specific areas of the brain, scientists at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucdavis.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of California, Davis<\/a> have discovered.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s well known that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/electrical-fields-aid-wound-healing\" target=\"_blank\">electric fields can locally guide wound healing<\/a>. Damaged tissues generate weak electric fields, and research by UC Davis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu\/dermatology\/faculty\/zhao.html\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Min Zhao<\/a> at the School of Medicine\u2019s Institute for Regenerative Cures has previously shown how these electric fields can attract cells into wounds to heal them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/neural-stem-cells-steered-by-electric-fields-can-repair-brain-damage\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/neural-stem-cells-steered-by-elect...ain-damage<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electrical stimulation of the rat brain to move neural stem cells (credit: Jun-Feng Feng et al.\/ Stem Cell Reports) Electric fields can be used to guide transplanted human neural stem cells \u2014 cells that can develop into various brain tissues \u2014 to repair brain damage in specific areas of the brain, scientists at the University [\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-70986","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\/70986","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=70986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71029,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70986\/revisions\/71029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}