Categoría: Stem Cell Research
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Stem Cell Institute Panama Clinic Case Report of Successful Treatment of Heart Failure Patient Published
Adult stem cell therapy is currently in numerous clinical trials in the United States and Internationally. A sample of ongoing trials can be seen at www.clinicaltrials.gov if you search for the words "stem cell". In clinical trials the objective is to determine safety (in Phase I), efficacy in an unblinded manner (Phase II) and efficacy…
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Dylan’s hope (Stem Cell Therapy for Cerebral Palsy)
The possibility of using stem cells to treat cerebral palsy has been suggested by several scientists based on the ability of these cells to: a) stimulate regeneration of damaged nervous system tissue; b) to prevent ongoing death of neurons; and c) to directly turn into, or "differentiate" into neurons. This is explained in the video…
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Stem Cells Regrow Crucial Hearing Cells in Mice
Hearing loss is a significant problem. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders 15 percent of Americans between 20 and 69, or 26 million people, have high frequency hearing loss caused by noise. Antibiotics and genetic disorders have also been identified as causative factors. Recently a study led by Dr. Kazuo…
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Stem Cells Have GPS to Generate Proper Nerve Cells
One of the main questions in stem cell therapy is how the injected cells "know" to find their way into the specific parts of the body where they are needed. The most common example of stem cells homing is during bone marrow transplant. In this situation donor stem cells are administered to the recipient intravenously,…
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Natural Compound in Broccoli Slows Breast Cancer Stem Cells
The area of cancer stem cells is very hot. To give an example, the pharmaceutical company GSK recently purchased the cancer stem cell company Oncomed for more than a billion dollars, at a time when Oncomed’s cancer stem cell-targeting drugs were not even tested in humans. This area is of great interest because it suggests…
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Biomedical Ethics in a Brave, New World
Dennis Trammell Pastor of the First Baptist Church at Possum Kingdom Lake, near Graford was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999 when his vision decreased in one eye, a symptom of multiple sclerosis called optic neuritis. Over the years he has been receiving numerous conventional medications that dealt with the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. However…
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Muscular Dystrophy Sufferers Hope New Treatment Can Answer Prayers
Adult stem cell therapy has been used for many diseases including heart failure, liver failure, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and even drug resistant tuberculosis. The biological basis for how stem cell therapy works seems to be two-fold. On the one hand, the stem cells appear to have the ability to become new tissues, on the other…
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Stem cells approved to treat ‘orphan’ disease
Stargardt’s Macular Dystrophy is the most common form of genetic juvenile macular degeneration. Manifestation of the condition begins in late childhood, leading to legal blindness. It is symptomatically similar to age-related macular degeneration, and it affects approximately one in 10,000 children. Olympic and Paralympic skier Brian McKeever is the best-known victim of the disease, which…
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Stem Cells Don’t have to be Alive to Be Beneficial
The use of stem cells in patients who have poor circulation is well-known. In fact, the first use of stem cells for conditions other than blood disorders was in patients who were undergoing bypass surgery. Usually patients undergo bypass because of advanced atherosclerosis that is inhibiting the flow of blood to the heart muscle. Despite…
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Saginaw stem-cell therapy study breaking new ground
Use of stem cells for treatment of degenerative diseases offers great hope. Unfortunately, this hope is tempered by practical considerations. For example, in patients with heart attacks it is known that readministration of their own stem cells into the infarct related area results in profound improvement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flv0RmzPyLU. The problem with this is that stem cells…