《Are there fetal stem cells in the maternal brain》.pdfVIP

NEURAL REGENERATION RESEARCH Volume 8, Issue 7, March 2013 doi:10.3969/j.issn.1673-5374.2013.07.002 [; ] Demirhan O, Çekin N, Taştemir D, Tunç E, Güzel AI, Meral D, Demirbek B. Are there fetal stem cells in the maternal brain? Neural Regen Res. 2013;8(7): 593-598. Are there fetal stem cells in the maternal brain?*☆● 1 2 3 1 4 2 Osman Demirhan , Necmi Çekin , Deniz Taştemir , Erdal Tunç , Ali İrfan Güzel , Demet Meral , Bülent Demirbek5 1 Department of Medical Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Çukurova, Adana, Turkey 2 Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Çukurova, Adana, Turkey 3 Vocational School of Health Services, Adiyaman University, Adiyaman, Turkey 4 Department of Medical Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Rize, Turkey 5 Psychiatric and Neurologic Diesease Hospital, Adana, Turkey Abstract Fetal cells can enter maternal blood during pregnancy but whether they can also cross the Corresponding author: Osman Demirhan☆, Ph.D., blood-brain barrier to enter the maternal brain remains poorly understood. Previous results suggest Professor, Department of that fetal cells are summoned to repair damage to the mothers brain. If this is confirmed, it would Medical Biology and open up new and safer avenues of treatment for brain damage caused by strokes and neural Genetics, Faculty of