The potential of a combined cell‐based therapy and rehabilitation approach for stroke recovery
Abdulhameed Bakreen, Jukka Jolkkonen · 2023
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Cell transplants alone have healed stroke damage only modestly in patients, despite strong results in animal work. Abdulhameed Bakreen and Jukka Jolkkonen review a pairing meant to do better in this 2023 paper: cell therapy joined with rehabilitation training. Their claim is that the two help each other, since training can guide new cells to wire into the recovering brain.
Many grafted cells die in the hostile tissue left by a stroke, and questions of dose, timing, and delivery remain open. Rehab, the authors argue, does more than exercise the body: it shapes brain plasticity so grafted and native cells can join working networks. The review lays out how the combined approach might restore lost function, and what evidence supports each part. It closes with the gaps that trials must still close.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Abdulhameed Bakreen, Jukka Jolkkonen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 54 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |