Etiqueta: bone marrow stem cells
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Inhaling Stem Cells for Treating Parkinson’s
Danielyan et al. Rejuvenation Res. Stem cells have been delivered in a variety of ways: intravenously, into the spinal canal (intrathecally), into the brain (stereotactically), into the joint (intra-articularly), and into the cardiac muscle (endocardially). Scientists from the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital of Tübingen , Tübingen, Germany have reported today a new way…
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Fat Stem Cells Turn to Muscle: A Treatment for Muscular Dystrophy?
New research published in the journal Biomaterials by University of California, San Diego researcher Adam Engler suggests fat-derived stem cells that are developed on a stiff surface transform into mature muscle cells. This remarkable discovery could lead to new treatments for muscular dystrophy in the future. Fat stem cells and bone marrow stem cells were…
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Bone Marrow Stem Cells Successful For Liver Failure Caused by Hepatitis B
Peng et al. Hepatology. The liver is the most regenerative solid organ in the body. One can resect 2/3 of the liver and it will still regenerate back to normal size. There have been several experimental studies in animals where induction of liver injury is treated by administration of bone marrow stem cells. A video…
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UW Researchers Make Stem Cell Breakthrough
Seung Park, Badger Herald Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have made a breakthrough in stem cell research. Igor Slukvin headed the team that has successfully reprogrammed bone marrow cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). “This is important because blood banks have huge amounts of samples of bone marrow,” he said. “You can select…
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Injured Liver Calls in Bone Marrow For Help?
Li et al. Cells Tissues Organs It is known that administration of bone marrow cells into patients with liver failure has the ability to improve enzyme function and overall health http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdH6Mm4w98I. Additionally, numerous animal models have demonstrated that injection of various types of stem cells can result in regeneration of injured liver tissue. For example,…
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Limb Transplants Facilitated by Bone Marrow Stem Cells
Kuo et al. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2011 Feb;127(2):569-79. Composite tissue allografts are usually transplants of anatomical structures that contain multiple types of tissues. We have seen numerous high-profile examples of human composite tissue allografts such as whole hands, faces, and arms. While advancement of surgical techniques have made such transplants a reality, immunologically-mediated rejection remains…
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Nine Patients with Crohn’s Disease Treated by Intravenous Administration of Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Marjolijn et al. Gut 59:1662 Mesenchymal stem cells are known to be suppressive to immune cells such as T cells, dendritic cells, and natural killer cells. Studies have demonstrated that patients suffering from the immune disease graft versus host enter remission after administration of donor or third party mesenchymal stem cells. One of the manifestations…
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New Cell That Keeps Stem Cells in the Bone Marrow
Chow et al. J Exp Med. When a bone marrow transplant is performed, the bone marrow cells of the donor are injected intravenously into the recipient and somehow find their way back into the bone marrow of the recipient. The mechanism known to be responsible for this has always been cited as being SDF-1 (also…
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Study Shows Patient’s Own Stem Cells Help Stroke Recovery: 16 Treated Patients Improve in Comparison to 36 Controls
Lee et al Stem Cells 28:1099 Stroke is caused by blocked circulation to parts of the brain usually as a result of a blood clot. Outcomes of stroke are generally proportional to the length of time the circulation was blocked and to the amount of brain tissue injury and death. Although the introduction of “clot…