First-of-Its-Kind Study Reveals How Stem Cell Proteins Restore Aging Tissues
Is there a way to turn back the clock on aging? Mitra Lavasani, PhD, director of the Translational Cell Therapy Lab at Shirley Ryan 星空传媒视频 is working with her team to find out.
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“Mini Brains” Can Advance Understanding of Brain
A recent study in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering highlighted a new technology that can allow for a better understanding of brain development and disease.
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What are Organoids?
Dr. Colin Franz is developing organoids — artificially grown masses of cells or tissue that resemble organs — to see whether this technique can contribute to life-changing discoveries for our patients.
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Speeding Drug Repurposing for Patients
Using an Anti-Cancer Drug to Treat Muscle Contractures in Cerebral Palsy.
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Our Projects
Take a look at a few of the projects we work on everyday.
Muscle Impairment in Children with Cerebral Palsy: a Role for Muscle Stem Cell Dysfunction and Drug Repurposing
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Cerebral Palsy, Muscle, Biology, Muscle Fibers, Cell Biology, Stem Cells, Cell Culture
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Defining trajectories of linguistic, cognitive-communicative and quality of life outcomes in aphasia
PROJECT TYPE:
Stroke, Aphasia, Quality Improvement, Outcomes, Brain, Biology, Speech Disorders
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Sarcomere Measurements
PROJECT TYPE:
Muscle Fibers, Muscle, Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, Physiology
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Selected Publications
Altered functional connectivity associated with time discounting in chronic pain.
Chronic pain (CP) is a global problem extensively associated with an unhealthy lifestyle. Time discounting (TD), a tendency to assign less value to future gains than to present gains, is an indicator of the unhealthy behaviors. While, recent neuroimaging studies implied overlapping neuro mechanisms underlying CP and TD, little is known about the specific relationship between CP and TD in behavior or neuroscience. As such, we investigated the association of TD with behavioral measures in CP and…