{"id":36839,"date":"2021-05-18T01:20:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T05:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/?p=36839"},"modified":"2021-05-19T10:31:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T14:31:41","slug":"looking-inside-a-neuro-repaired-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/looking-inside-a-neuro-repaired-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking inside a neuro-repaired brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/brain-glue-helps-repair-circuitry-in-severe-tbi\/\">a new study<\/a>, researchers at UGA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rbc.uga.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regenerative Bioscience Center<\/a>\u00a0have demonstrated the long-term benefits of a hydrogel, which they call \u201cbrain glue,\u201d for the treatment of traumatic brain injury. The new study provides evidence that not only does the gel protect against loss of brain tissue after a severe injury, but it also might aid in functional neural repair.<\/p>\n<p>Brain damage following significant TBI commonly results in extensive tissue loss and long-term disability. There currently are no clinical treatments to prevent the resulting cognitive impairments or tissue loss.<\/p>\n<p>Reported on March 5 in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/7\/10\/eabe0207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science Advances<\/a>, the new finding is the first to provide visual and functional evidence of the repair of brain neural circuits involved in reach-to-grasp movement in brain glue-implanted animals following severe TBI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur work provides a holistic view of what\u2019s going on in the recovery of the damaged region while the animal is accomplishing a specific reach-and-grasp task,\u201d said lead investigator Lohitash Karumbaiah, an associate professor in the University of Georgia\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.caes.uga.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The video above shows 3D imagery of a rat brain treated with brain glue following severe traumatic brain injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study, researchers at UGA\u2019s\u00a0Regenerative Bioscience Center\u00a0have demonstrated the long-term benefits of a hydrogel, which they call \u201cbrain glue,\u201d for the treatment of traumatic brain injury. The new study provides evidence that not only does the gel protect against loss of brain tissue after a severe injury, but it also might aid in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/looking-inside-a-neuro-repaired-brain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Looking inside a neuro-repaired brain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":36842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"watch-single.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[],"post_medium":[315],"publications":[],"authors":[364],"photographers":[],"video_credit":[649],"takeaways":[],"class_list":["post-36839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neuroscience","post_medium-watch","authors-charlene-betourney","video_credit-uga-research-communications","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36839"},{"taxonomy":"post_medium","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_medium?post=36839"},{"taxonomy":"publications","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications?post=36839"},{"taxonomy":"authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors?post=36839"},{"taxonomy":"photographers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photographers?post=36839"},{"taxonomy":"video_credit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video_credit?post=36839"},{"taxonomy":"takeaways","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/takeaways?post=36839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}