{"id":1262,"date":"2014-11-10T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-09T15:22:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:22:44","slug":"damage-to-the-brain-caused-by-parkinsons-disease-can-be-healed-using-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/2014\/11\/damage-to-the-brain-caused-by-parkinsons-disease-can-be-healed-using-stem-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Damage to the brain caused by Parkinson’s disease can be ‘healed’ using stem cells"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stem cells can be used to heal the damage in the brain caused by Parkinson’s disease<\/a>, according to scientists in Sweden.<\/p>\n

They said their study on rats heralded a ‘huge breakthrough’ towards developing effective treatments.<\/p>\n

There is no cure for the disease, but medication and brain stimulation can alleviate symptoms.<\/p>\n

Parkinson’s UK said there were many questions still to be answered before human trials could proceed.<\/p>\n

Scientists have found stem cells<\/a> can heal the damage to the brain caused by Parkinson’s disease<\/a>. The actor Billy Connolly was revealed last year he has been diagnosed with the condition.<\/p>\n

Scientists have found stem cells can heal the damage to the brain caused by Parkinson’s disease<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Researchers said their study on rats using stem cells heralded a ‘huge breakthrough’ towards developing effective treatments for the condition<\/p>\n

The disease is caused by the loss of nerve cells in the brain that produce the chemical dopamine, which helps to control mood and movement.<\/p>\n

Comedian Billy Connolly revealed last year he had been diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The Scottish actor, 71, was diagnosed by a doctor in a hotel lobby, who spotted that his gait suggested he was showing early signs of the illness.<\/p>\n

In the new study, to simulate Parkinson’s, Lund University researchers killed dopamine-producing neurons on one side of the rats’ brains.<\/p>\n

They then converted human embryonic stem cells into neurons that produced dopamine.<\/p>\n

These were injected into the rats’ brains, and the researchers found evidence that the damage was reversed.<\/p>\n

There have been no human clinical trials of stem-cell-derived neurons, but the researchers said they could be ready for testing by 2017.<\/p>\n

Malin Parmar, associate professor of developmental and regenerative neurobiology, said: ‘It’s a huge breakthrough in the field [and] a stepping stone towards clinical trials.’<\/p>\n

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Stem cells can be used to heal the damage in the brain caused by Parkinson’s disease, according to scientists in Sweden. They said their study on rats heralded a ‘huge breakthrough’ towards developing effective treatments. There is no cure for the disease, but medication and brain stimulation can alleviate symptoms. Parkinson’s UK said there were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}