Stem Cell Therapy for Repair of the Injured Brain: Five Principles
Ruslan Rust, Christian Tackenberg
Abstract
Cell therapy holds great promise for regenerative treatment of disease. Despite recent breakthroughs in clinical research, applications of cell therapies to the injured brain have not yielded the desired results. We pinpoint current limitations and suggest five principles to advance stem cell therapies for brain regeneration. While we focus on cell therapy for stroke, all principles also apply for other brain diseases.
Topics & Concepts
Stem-cell therapyCell therapyMedicineRegeneration (biology)NeuroscienceStem cellBrain diseaseDiseaseIntensive care medicineBioinformaticsPsychologySurgeryPathologyTransplantationBiologyCell biologyGeneticsPluripotent Stem Cells ResearchBiomedical Ethics and RegulationMesenchymal stem cell research