In mammals, the brain stem is specialised for keeping the heart and lungs working.
This unfortunate 28 year old has a tumor of the brain stem that cannot be cured.
It revealed that healthy brain stem cells displayed a certain telltale protein called CD133 on their surface.
Enniskillen toddler Millie Martin was brain stem dead almost the moment she arrived in the Erne Hospital.
The fMRI results suggest he is not brain dead, because areas above the brain stem are showing activity.
Today's tests concentrate on the stalk-like brain stem, in charge of basics such as breathing, sleeping and waking.
All 19 SIDS brains showed strong or moderate levels of interleukin-1 in the same regions of the brain stem.
They reasoned that, if the brain stem is dead, the higher centers of the brain are also probably dead.
Three large structures stand out: the cerebrum, the cerebellum and the brain stem.
He then took brain stem cells from another rat and grew part of the spinal cord on a polymer scaffold.
Most organs are donated from a patient who has been declared brain stem dead, but whose heart is still beating.
The Kidney Federation has campaigned for more effort to be made to take organs from donors other than brain stem-dead patients.
The brains of reptiles correspond more or less to the structures known in mammals as the brain stem and the cerebellum.
He said he could elicit no brain stem reflexes and he concluded in his own mind that she was brain stem dead.
Working on mice, they showed that DISC1 was active, both in cells taken from embryos and in brain stem cells taken from adult mice.
The first part the brain stem sits at the base of your skull.
The petition says that she suffered "brain stem contusion injuries with associated cervical cord injury and due to this she was reduced to almost a vegetable".
Ms. Giffords's immediate responsiveness to commands, such as squeezing a doctor's hand, suggests that she wasn't in a coma and that her brain stem and the brain's core structures had relatively little damage.
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Researchers at several other labs found evidence of brain cancer stem cells at about the same time.
Your article sounds like an incitement to make yet more laws that could interfere significantly with the kind of work I want to do for example, developing treatments for neurodegenerative disorders, including electric-brain stimulation, stem-cell implantation and modification of cell genomes.
They first asked for a 20% salary hike to stem a brain drain.
We should not be diagnosing many more people with meaningless "mental illnesses", telling them these stem from brain abnormalities, and prescribing medication.
In that study, the connections between the hairs and the brain were broken and stem cells were used to create new nerves.
Ricardo Dolmetsch, a researcher at Stanford University and the Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, is using stem cell technology to study how the neurons of people with autism differ from those of other people.
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In fact, other researchers have already managed to persuade adult bone marrow stem cells to develop into brain neurons.
Research in autism has indicated abnormalities in spinal fluid and chemical signaling in the brain- anecdotal reports of children undergoing stem cell therapy have indicated some potentially encouraging results.
Its goal is to create pills that unlock the potential of stem cells already situated inside the brain, skin, and bone marrow.
However, on closer examination, the new cells proliferating in the petri dish contained the florescent marker from the brain cells and the DNA from the embryonic stem cells.
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