Blood stem cell growth factor reverses memory decline in mice

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 15:35 in Health & Medicine

Tampa, FL (July 1, 2009) -- A human growth factor that stimulates blood stem cells to proliferate in the bone marrow reverses memory impairment in mice genetically altered to develop Alzheimer's disease, researchers at the University of South Florida and James A. Haley Hospital found.

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