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Brain Neural Circuit Formation Requires Identification Of A Key Molecular Pathway
The research group of Dr. Frçİdçİric Charron, a researcher at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montrçİal (IRCM), has made a discovery which could help treat spinal cord injuries and neurodegenerative diseases. This new finding has been published in the current issue of the prestigious scientific journal Neuron. Patricia T. Yam, Sçİbastien D. Langlois and Steves Morin, all at the IRCM, are listed as co-authors.
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Chair Of General Pharmaceutical Council Is Welcomed By Society
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has welcomed the appointment of Mr Robert Nicholls CBE as the Chair Designate of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
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Senate Finance Committee Releases Policy Paper Describing Options To Pay For Health Overhaul
Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Monday released a 41-page document outlining policy options for financing health care reform, The Hill reports (Young, The Hill, 5/18). The paper is the third and final to be released before the senators draft health reform legislation. The document says Baucus and Grassley do not support all the proposals included in the paper, but does not indicate which are backed by the senators (Wayne, CQ Today, 5/18). The options, which will be discussed at a closed-door committee meeting on Wednesday, include a number of proposed spending cuts and new or revised taxes (Drucker, Roll Call, 5/18). The report outlines several ways to gain revenue by re-evaluating the tax exemption for employer-sponsored health care benefits, which cost the government $194.2 billion in revenue in 2008, according to the report. The options include:
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Discarded Fallopian Tubes Could Be Rich Of Stem Cells, Study

Fallopian tubes normally discarded after hysterectomies and other procedures could become rich potential s for mesenchymal stem cells which like other types of stem cell can be coaxed to develop into a variety of cell types, according to a new study by researchers in Brazil. Researchers from the University of Sç£o Paulo"s Human Genome Research Centre, which is directed by Dr Mayana Zatz conducted the study in collaboration with medical doctors from the University"s reproductive surgery department. The results are published as an online paper in BioMed Central"s open access Journal of Translational Medicine. The authors wrote that scientists have already discovered that umbilical cords, dental pulp and fat tissue, which they described as "biological discards", yield mesenchymal stem cells that can develop into muscle, fat, bone and cartilage tissue. This prompted them and other teams to look for more s, since stem cells obtained this way don"t raise the ethical problems that occur when stem cells are taken from embryos. As first author Tatiana Jazedje noted in a separate statement: "Use of human tissue fragments that are usually discarded in surgical procedures does not pose ethical problems." In this study the Brazilian team used fallopian tubes obtained from hysterectomy and other gynecological procedures undergone by fertile women aged from 35 to 55 who had been clear of any hormone treatments for at least three months beforehand. After isolating mesenchymal stem cells from the fallopian tubes, the researchers found that they were quite easy to expand in vitro where they differentiated readily into muscle, fat, cartilage and bone cell lines. The researchers found no abnormality in the chromosomes of the new cell lines, suggesting they had good chromosomal stability. They concluded that: "Human tube MSCs [mesenchymal stem cells] can be easily isolated, expanded in vitro, present a mesenchymal profile and are able to differentiate into muscle, fat, cartilage and bone in vitro. " Jazedje said that as well suggesting a possible new of stem cells for regenerative treatments, their findings will hopefully help reproductive science as a whole. "Human fallopian tube: a new of multipotent adult mesenchymal stem cells discarded in surgical procedures." Tatiana Jazedje, Paulo M Perin, Carlos E Czeresnia, Mariangela Maluf, Silvio Halpern, Mariane Secco, Daniela F Bueno, Natassia M Vieira, Eder Zucconi, Mayana Zatz. Journal of Translational Medicine 2009, 7:46. Published online 18 June 2009. doi:10.1186/1479-5876-7-46 BioMed Central. Written by: Catharine Paddock, PhD Copyright: Medical News Today Not to be reproduced without permission of Medical News Today


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