Exercise Helps Increase Production Of Neural Stem Cells In Mice Brains

A new study confirms that exercise can reverse the age-related decline in the production of neural stem cells in the hippocampus of the mouse brain, and suggests that this happens because exercise restores a brain chemical which promotes the production and maturation of new stem cells. Neural stem cells and progenitor cells differentiate into a variety of mature nerve cells which have different functions, a process called neurogenesis.

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Filed under: Neurology / Neuroscience on November 21st, 2008