Categoría: Spinal Cord Injury
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Giving birth after stem cell treatments for spinal cord injury
Trish Stressman and her husband Scott discuss how stem cell therapy at the Stem Cell Institute in Panama allowed her to recover to the point at which she could safely give birth and care for her newborn daughter, Savannah Hope. Prior to stem cell treatment, Trish had no core muscles and would not have been…
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Adult Stem Cell Therapy Successfully Treats Spinal Cord Injury
An interesting spinal cord injury study was published last week. The Turkish researchers tested two types of stem cells on spinal cord injured mice. The two cell types were native bone marrow cells and cultured repair stem cells called Mesenchymal stem cells. Native bone marrow cells contain bone marrow forming stem cells as well as…
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«The fight to walk» – spinal cord injury patient improving after stem cell therapy in Panama
Published March 31, 2012 By Sue Guinn Legg – Press Staff Writer Daniel Leonard is doing all he can to walk again, and after a recent course of stem cell treatment he’s as close as he has been since a few months after the 2005 injury that put him a wheelchair. He was 22 years…
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Umbilical cord stem cells may lead to new spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis treatments
Researchers in Florida have accomplished converting umbilical cord stem cells into other cell types. According to University of Central Florida bioengineer James Hickman, it’s the first time that non-embryonic cells have accomplished this feat. His research group published this work in the January 18th issue of ACS Chemical Neuroscience. Two major benefits of umbilical cord-derived…
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Stem Cell Therapy For Spinal Cord Injury and A Layman’s Guide To Adipose Stem Cell Therapy – Stem Cell Institute Seminar in Gilbert, AZ
The Treatment of Human Diseases with Adult Stem Cells We are proud to present and discuss the latest in adult stem cell treatments for diseases. Join us for informational presentations by: Jorge Paz Rodriguez, MD – A Layman’s Guide to Adipose Stem Cell Therapy Neil Riordan, PhD – Adult Stem Cell Therapy for Spinal…
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StemCells, Inc. Initiates World’s First Neural Stem Cell Trial In Spinal Cord Injury
StemCells Inc Press Release StemCells Inc announced today they are initiating a clinical trial using their fetal derived neural progenitor cells for the treatment of spinal cord injuries. Previously the company had reported that their stem cells, called HuCNS-SC, are capable of differentiating into various neural lineage cells including neurons, oligodendrocytes, and astrocytes. The fact…
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Increasing Efficacy of Stem Cell Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury
Jin et al. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). Clinical trials of stem cells for treatment of spinal cord injury are currently being conducted in the United States and abroad. For example, the Covington Louisiana company TCA Cellular Therapy LLC is recruiting 10 patients with spinal cord injury to receive intrathecal infusion (lumbar puncture) of autologous, ex…
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Stem Cell Institute (Cellmedicine) Successfully Treats Spinal Cord Injury Patient with Adult Stem Cells
Peer-Reviewed Joint Publication between Stem Cell Clinic and American Researchers Panama City, Panama – The Stem Cell Institute (www.cellmedicine.com) reported today recovery of a spinal cord injury patient that was treated with a unique combination stem cell treatment. The patient suffered a crush fracture of the L1 vertebral body on May 13th, 2008 after a…