National Central University Professor accidentally discovered LED lighting to promote nerve cell growth

It is reported that the Japanese came to Taiwan to teach at Centre College professor of the Department of chemical materials and sub Gan found, using LED (light emitting diode) nerve cell irradiation can promote nerve cell growth and the direction of the series, a year is expected to animal experiments were carried out in the next six months to break through the bottleneck, hope for the treatment of spinal cord injury. Our Dr. Gan is probably the world's first found that the effect of LED light on nerve cells. Mouth sub Gan said, 3, 4 years ago, in order to record and observe the growth of nerve cells, in the laboratory by lighting and camera dynamic growth of nerve cells, found under the microscope light may have effects on nerve cells. So he began experimenting with different LED lights, control of different wavelengths, in which wavelength 470 LED blue light, not only the nerve cells grow well, and it seems a began to appear near the connection string. Taipei Guotai hospital medical research center director Ling Qingdong said that in the past from the differentiation of stem cells from neural cells, tandem function between these nerve cells each other is very poor, which leads to the message, meaningless. But our Dr. Gan found that receptors on nerve cells may be a reasonable guess, it will respond to light. At present, the researchers in the gene comparison, hoping to find out whether the presence of this receptor, exactly what kind of protein, in order to determine the association with neural cells. According to the observation of the present experiments using LED light could induce nerve cell clusters link direction. Joint research and development center of Centre College and deputy chief Chen Wenyi said Cathay hospital development, the future, if implanted stem cells to repair nerve cell transplantation for fractured nerve, increased neuronal communication between cells will help paralyzed patients to stand up the opportunity.

Source: LEDinside