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Brain 2007 130(5):1173-1174; doi:10.1093/brain/awm099
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Available even from snippets of human skin, stem cells capable of forming tolerably respectable neurones are, as it were, on the lips of every person expecting—both from the professional and personal viewpoints—that structure and function can now be restored in the context of damage and disease. The opportunity to produce very many fate-restricted progeny from one or a few cells not only promises the provision of re-building blocks suitable for brain repair but also offers mediators of therapeutic plasticity and immune modulation, methods to study human development, reagents for modelling disease, and a resource for drug discovery. The stakes are high for stem cells in regenerative neurology and, hence, in fuelling the expectations . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Alastair Compston

Cambridge


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