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Publication Date: 2004/12/01


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HUMAN STEM CELL LINE SHOWS PROMISE IN EARLY ANIMAL MODELS OF STROKE

Paula Moyer

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TORONTO — A human neural stem cell line expedites functional recovery in a rat model of ischemic stroke, according to researchers from the United Kingdom who presented their findings here in October at the Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association. Rats received the treatment four weeks after undergoing stroke, and still showed measurable functional improvement, lead investigator Paul Stroemer, PhD, told Neurology Today.
“In our study, the animals that received grafts of this stem cell line after stroke showed a faster recovery of motor function than did controls,” said Dr. Stroemer, the group leader of the functional assessment team at ReNeuron, which developed and tested the cell line. “If the findings are replicated in primate trials, we will conduct phase I and phase II clinical trials by the first half of 2006.

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