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Published online 25 June 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060619-14
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Brain can be made to self-repair
Triggering stem-cell growth could help brain recover after a stroke.
Stimulating a protein on the surface of the brain's stem cells helps rats recover after a stroke, US researchers have found. The discovery suggests that in humans it could be possible to provoke the body's own stem cells into repairing an injury, rather than laboriously growing and transplanting new cells.
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