December 9, 2013
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Editor at Pain & Central Nervous System Week -- New research on Nervous System Diseases and Conditions is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating in
Baltimore, Maryland
, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, "Cerebral palsy is a chronic childhood disorder that can have diverse etiologies. Injury to the developing brain that occurs either in utero or soon after birth can result in the motor, sensory, and cognitive deficits seen in cerebral palsy."
The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from
Johns Hopkins University
, "Although the etiologies for cerebral palsy are variable, neuroinflammation plays a key role in the pathophysiology of the brain injury irrespective of the etiology. Currently, there is no effective cure for cerebral palsy. Nanomedicine offers a new frontier in the development of therapies for prevention and treatment of brain injury resulting in cerebral palsy. Nanomaterials such as dendrimers provide opportunities for the targeted delivery of multiple drugs that can mitigate several pathways involved in injury and can be delivered specifically to the cells that are responsible for neuroinflammation and injury. These materials also offer the opportunity to deliver agents that would promote repair and regeneration in the brain, resulting not only in attenuation of injury, but also enabling normal growth. In this review, the current advances in nanotechnology for treatment of brain injury are discussed with specific relevance to cerebral palsy."
According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "Future directions that would facilitate clinical translation in neonates and children are also addressed."
For more information on this research see: Nanomedicine in cerebral palsy.
International Journal of Nanomedicine
, 2013;8():4183-4195.
International Journal of Nanomedicine
can be contacted at:
Dove Medical Press Ltd
, PO Box 300-008, Albany,
Auckland
0752,
New Zealand
(see also Nervous System Diseases and Conditions).
Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting
B. Balakrishnan
,
Johns Hopkins University
, Center Nanomed,
Dept. of Ophthalmol
,
Baltimore, MD
21205,
United States
. Additional authors for this research include
E. Nance
,
M.V. Johnston
,
R. Kannan
and S. Kannan.
Keywords for this news article include:
Maryland
,
Baltimore
, Treatment,
United States
, Brain Diseases, Cerebral Palsy, Chronic Brain Damage, North and
Central America
, Central Nervous System Diseases, Nervous System Diseases and Conditions
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