That LBS-neurons can be frozen, thawed and inserted into living brains at all is impressive. To date, researchers worldwide have been unable to achieve this level of progress with any other neuron cell line. Many investigators contributed important pre-clinical research findings that made possible this historic clinical neuron transplant for stroke. Currently, there is only one drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of stroke. It's called TPA .
Doctors say it saves lives, but only if given within three hours of the stroke.
Now, doctors around the country are testing a different drug that opens up that time window . Diana was home with her son when she felt nauseous. Twenty minutes later her dad came along. He went in the house, and that's when he found me collapsed in the bathroom. Paralyzed on the left side, she was taken to the hospital.