Ethical Implications in the Use of Embryonic and Adult Neural Stem Cells
The advent and growth of technological advances have led to new routes of knowledge. Thereby, we currently face new challenges. We have just started to get a glimpse of the structural and functional role of neural stem cells in differentiation and migration processes, the origin of synaptic networks...
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| author | Rodrigo Ramos-Zúñiga Oscar González-Pérez Ana Macías-Ornelas Vivian Capilla-González Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa |
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| description | The advent and growth of technological advances have led to new routes of knowledge. Thereby, we currently face new challenges. We have just started to get a glimpse of the structural and functional role of neural stem cells in differentiation and migration processes, the origin of synaptic networks, and subsequent readjustments in specific circuits. A whole range of treatment possibilities originates from this knowledge that potentially can be used for different neurological diseases in humans. Although this is an encouraging scenario, it implies that the human brain is the object of such study, as well as its potential manipulation and transplantation. It is, therefore, pertinent that ethical principles should be followed in such research to have proper balance between what can be done and what should be done, according to every specific context. Hence, it is wise to consider ethical implications in every research project, along with potential clinical applications, under the principle of causing no harm, following risk and benefit rules in decision making and with respect of the human condition as a priority. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6ba408a9633d4f179a968aa19b6683df2025-02-03T01:01:33ZengWileyStem Cells International1687-966X1687-96782012-01-01201210.1155/2012/470949470949Ethical Implications in the Use of Embryonic and Adult Neural Stem CellsRodrigo Ramos-Zúñiga0Oscar González-Pérez1Ana Macías-Ornelas2Vivian Capilla-González3Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa4Department of Neurosciences, CUCS, Universidad de Guadalajara, 44630 Guadalajara, JAL, MexicoDepartment of Neurosciences, CUCS, Universidad de Guadalajara, 44630 Guadalajara, JAL, MexicoDepartment of Neurosciences, CUCS, Universidad de Guadalajara, 44630 Guadalajara, JAL, MexicoDepartment of Neurosurgery, Brain Tumor Stem Cells Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 4940, USADepartment of Neurosurgery, Brain Tumor Stem Cells Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 4940, USAThe advent and growth of technological advances have led to new routes of knowledge. Thereby, we currently face new challenges. We have just started to get a glimpse of the structural and functional role of neural stem cells in differentiation and migration processes, the origin of synaptic networks, and subsequent readjustments in specific circuits. A whole range of treatment possibilities originates from this knowledge that potentially can be used for different neurological diseases in humans. Although this is an encouraging scenario, it implies that the human brain is the object of such study, as well as its potential manipulation and transplantation. It is, therefore, pertinent that ethical principles should be followed in such research to have proper balance between what can be done and what should be done, according to every specific context. Hence, it is wise to consider ethical implications in every research project, along with potential clinical applications, under the principle of causing no harm, following risk and benefit rules in decision making and with respect of the human condition as a priority.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/470949 |
| spellingShingle | Rodrigo Ramos-Zúñiga Oscar González-Pérez Ana Macías-Ornelas Vivian Capilla-González Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa Ethical Implications in the Use of Embryonic and Adult Neural Stem Cells Stem Cells International |
| title | Ethical Implications in the Use of Embryonic and Adult Neural Stem Cells |
| title_full | Ethical Implications in the Use of Embryonic and Adult Neural Stem Cells |
| title_fullStr | Ethical Implications in the Use of Embryonic and Adult Neural Stem Cells |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ethical Implications in the Use of Embryonic and Adult Neural Stem Cells |
| title_short | Ethical Implications in the Use of Embryonic and Adult Neural Stem Cells |
| title_sort | ethical implications in the use of embryonic and adult neural stem cells |
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