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Stroke
2026-09-09
Betting the Umbilical Cord's "Young Cells" on Stroke — Yet Among 285 References, Not One Stroke Clinical Trial Is Explicitly Identified as Wharton's Jelly-Derived
We read a review that promotes the "young" mesenchymal stem cells harvested from the umbilical cord jelly thrown away at every birth, along with their secreted products, as the trump card of post-stroke regenerative medicine. There are no new data, and no literature search procedure is written down. And among its 285 references, there was not a single clinical trial that gave stroke patients material explicitly identified as Wharton's jelly-derived.
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Neuroscience
2026-08-01
The 'Neurotrophic Factors' Linking Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Neurodegeneration — Why Drugs That Should Work Can't Reach the Brain
Stroke, TBI, and Alzheimer's/Parkinson's differ in cause but converge on the same breakdown pathways. Why don't NGF and BDNF work in humans? A Russian team reads the delivery barrier from six trials.
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