All I know is that Stem cells are undifferentiated cells which can transform to any and all specific type of our body cells.I either know that we could cure some kind of diseases like paralysis.When someone's spinal cord is being damaged, those damaged cells could be replaced with stem cells that applied to the point where the damage is, and then trigger them to turn into cells, to replace the damage cells.
But my main question is, if it's possible to cure the brain it self directly by stem cells? For example if it's possible to cure the posterior blindness as effect of physical injury in visual cortex?
Please share your thoughts with me about possibility of this concept?
Depends on what kind of stem cells and what kind of treatment. Brain damage can be a huge topic, what is damaged and what needs repair? To repair damaged neural tissues in brain, neural stem cell that can differentiate into neurons could be a potential treatment, some other damages like the glial cell damage, stem cell treatment may not be the best fit
Dear Ms chun;
Thanks for your answer, I should mention that my main question was about posterior blindness as effect of physical injury in visual cortex and possibility of being treated with stem cells.
But the issue about glial cell damage that you addressed is fantastic too, please give more information about that, if you don' mind.
Hello
There are a lot of challenges in this issue . the articles here will give you good answer .
Good Luck
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23705996
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350946215000464
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929728/
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