Neural Stem Cells in Treating Diseases of the CNSBrooke McCarthyBME 281Fall 2011

Stem Cells

Undifferentiated cells

Types

Cell division

Induced to become specialized cellsPhysiologically

Experimentally

Neural Stem Cells

Most fundamental cell of the nervous system

Divides to createNeurons

Astrocytes

Oligodendroglia

CNS

Malignant glioblastomas

Multiple sclerosis

Niemann-Pick’s disease

Current treatments

NSC Therapy

Inject

Migrate

Surround

Results

Multiple sclerosis

Niemann-Pick’s disease

Still too early

Pros

Best results

Injection

Either type of stem cell

Problems

Risks

BTSC

Mutation of NSC

Largest part of brain tumors

Resists treatments

Genetic engineering

Future

Genetic engineering

Cellular origins

Other diseases

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