Progenitor cells in the hippocampus may help repair brain injury
According to a report published on 11/29/05, researchers at the Queensland Brain Institute in Australia have identified a process that could lead to development of repair mechanisms for people suffering from dementia and acquired brain injury. It utilizes discoveries in the hippocampus - a part of the brain commonly associated with memory function - where the brain's ability to regenerate nerve cells or neurons is known to degenerate with age. The researchers have demonstrated adult mice produce multi-purpose, or progenitor, cells in the hippocampus.
While progenitor cells in mice do not behave like stem cells, which have the ability to self-renew, the progenitor cells are nevertheless capable of generating nerve cells in the hippocampus. The latest discovery in the hippocampus suggests the human nervous system has the potential capacity to respond to its outside environment by generating new nerve cells.
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