Etiqueta: adult stem cells
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PRECISE: Adipose-derived stem cells show utility as therapy
Cardiology Today PRECISE is The Randomized Clinical Trial of Adipose-Derived Stem Cells in Treatment of Non Revascularizable Ischemic Myocardium, a double blind, placebo-controlled trial involving 27 patients with chronic ischemic heart disease with HF, angina or both, who were not eligible for percutaneous or surgical revascularization. The patients in the study underwent a liposuction to…
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Scientists look to stem cells to mend broken hearts
Cardiac medicine has traditionally been associated with innovative procedures that sometimes where considered heretical to the present day dogma. For example, the first heart transplant, the use of the balloon catheter, the introduction of thrombolytics, all met substantial resistance from the “establishment” in their time. It appears that the next revolution in cardiac medicine is…
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Time to end stem cell institute CIRM
Wesley J. Smith , San Francisco Chronicle The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was created in 2004 as a result of the California Proposition 71, which called for a new bond issue to generate 3 billion dollars in order to support stem cell research in the State. In part, the institute was created as…
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Success Stems From Adult Cells
The use of adult stem cells for conditions besides bone marrow transplant is most prevalent in the area of heart failure. Since the original study of Strauer et al in 2001 in which a 46-year old patient was administered bone marrow stem cells after a heart attack and experienced a profound improvement in cardiac function,…
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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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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.