Categoría: Adult Stem Cells
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Histostem Works With Korean Government Agency to Provide Cord Blood Storage for Multicultural Families
The US company Amstem through subsidiary signed a partnership agreement with the Songpa-Gu Office of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, to provide umbilical cord blood banking to multicultural families for up to 15 years. Cord blood is currently used for treatment of patients with blood disorders such as leukemias as an alternative to bone marrow. Unfortunately…
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Stem Cell Treatment for Heart Attacks: Timing is Everything
Skeletal myoblasts are a type of muscle-specific stem cell that have been used previously in several clinical trials, particularly for heart failure and post-heart attack patients. Advantages of this type of stem cell include the fact that they are from adult sources (no risk of cancer), they are already committed to becoming muscle cells, and…
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Butyrate Greatly Enhances Derivation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells by Promoting Epigenetic Remodeling and the Expression of Pluripotency-Associated Genes
Generation of inducible pluripotent stem cells (iPS) offers the possibility of creating patient-specific stem cells with embryonic stem cell therapeutic potential from adult sources. Recently the main hurdle of iPS cell generation, the need for introduction of oncogenes in the adult cells, has been removed by use of chemical modulators as well as alternative non-cancer…
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Cord blood stem cells help meet minority marrow needs
Leukemias are cancers of the cells that give rise to white blood cells. For example in myeloid leukemias the cells that normally would become the blood cells neutrophils or macrophages start to make copies of themselves but refuse to mature. What happens is that the body is flooding with cells that on the one hand…
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Adult Stem Cells Healing Hearts
Adult stem cells are being more and more used in patients to achieve effects. In the treatment of patients with heart failure, Dr. David Prentice, discussed two studies in which adult stem cells appear to have some benefit. The first study was the result of a Brazil-Florida joint effort in which it was discovered that…
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Fat May Serve a Purpose in Stem Cell Research
Scientist Dr. Joseph Wu at the Stanford University School of Medicine has recently published a new and improved method to generate stem cells "artificially". For almost a decade there has been substantial controversy regarding the use of embryonic stem cells, with the debate becoming socially and politically focused as opposed to based on science: one…
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Stem Cells Might Reverse Heart Damage From Chemo
The rats that received the cardiac specific stem cells had both preservation of cardiac function, and also regeneration of the damaged heart tissue.
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Stem Cell Therapy Aids the Return of Lava Man
After 17 months Lava Man is scheduled to make a come-back this Saturday at Hollywood Park in the Native Diver Handicap. The horse was treated with his own fat derived stem cells by Dr. Doug Herthel.
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Cleveland Clinic receives $2.75M grant to study stem cell use in treating MS
The Cleveland Clinic has received a $2.75 million federal grant from the Department of Defense. The study will investigate patients with relapse-remitting MS that are still able to walk but have moderate to severe disability.
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Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem Cells Inhibit Neointimal Formation in a Paracrine Fashion in Rat Femoral Artery
In the study, fat mesenchymal stem cells were isolated from rats and tested for ability to promote healing of the endothelium, which is the lining of the blood vessels.