Brain injury: how can MRI predict which patients will respond to neural stem cell therapy?
Macro shot of a brain's cerebrospinal fluid filled ventricle, showcasing intricate neural structures and membranes, illuminated by soft blue light in a medical lab setting.
Researchers from Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (CA, USA) and Loma Linda University Health(CA, USA) have collaborated to assess how magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used to identify how the properties of brain lesions caused by hypoxic–ischemic brain injury (HIBI) impact the efficacy of neural stem cell therapy. The authors of the study, published in Cell Reports, hope that their findings in rats can be applied in newborns who have experienced perinatal HIBI to determine the best course of treatment. In the study, MRI was used to assess the brain lesions in rats with HIBI. In each animal...