Neural Stem Cell Lab Unimi

trophy and spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress – or adult as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) and hereditary neuropathies (Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2A 2). The transplantation of stem cells may represent potential therapeutic approaches for neurodegenerative diseases, and in particular for motor neuron diseases. The mechanisms by which the transplantation acts include (in addition to cell replacement), the release of neuroprotective factors produced by transplanted cells.