Most epileptics can not get rid of his illness, even after the course of therapy or surgery. However, American scientists on the way to solving this problem: in the treatment of epilepsy are involved stem cells.
American scientists from the University of California in San Francisco found that epilepsy can be treated with stem cells. Before the first use in practice it is still far, but the first tests on mice are successful now.
First, the scientists artificially induced epilepsy in mice by acting on the brain specifically substance pilocarpine. Later, doctors grafted mice embryonic stem cells do not have the ability to share - to not cause swelling.
A number of operations was very successful: the mouse, transplanted stem cells almost immediately ceased to show signs of epilepsy, from rare rodent attacks began just a lot less. In the control group of mice, where a transplant is not performed, seizures recur again and again.
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