Etiqueta: bone marrow
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Excerpts from Interview with Dr. Amit Patel, Director of Regenerative Medicine, University of Utah by Thomas Ichim, Ph.D, CEO of Medistem Inc
www.thelatestwith.com Ichim: Which one was the first stem cell trial for cardiac conditions? Patel: It is like one of those questions like who did the first heart operation. There is a lot of debate as to what was the first to use cells plus therapy and there have been a number of trials. Myoblasts were…
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Stem Cell trial volunteers thank doctors at reunion lunch
Miami Herald, by Fred Tasker, ftasker@MiamiHerald.com Stem cell therapy was originally used for the treatment of leukemias in the form of bone marrow transplant. Nearly 2 decades after this groundbreaking work, clinical trials initiated using bone marrow stem cells for treatment of heart patients. Bone marrow stem cells possess the ability to stimulate new blood…
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New Stem Cells Found in Ovary
Parte et al. Stem Cells Dev. Very small embryonic like cells (VSEL) are a type of stem cell that appears to be found in bone marrow and other tissues of the body, presumably as a remnant of embryonic or embryonic-like cells left over from development. In a recent paper it was demonstrated that these cells…
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Mechanisms of a New Stem Cell Mobilizer
Jarcome-Galarza et al. J Bone Miner Res. It is known that the bone marrow contains three main types of stem cells: a) hematopoietic stem cells, which make blood; b) endothelial progenitor cells, which maintain healthy blood vessels; and c) mesenchymal stem cells, which repair a variety of tissues and are capable of producing high amounts…
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What Works Better: Stem Cell Mobilization or Stem Cell Administration for Brain Injury
Bakhtiary et al. Iran Biomed J. 2010 Oct;14(4):142-9. Bone marrow mobilization is used as part of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in order to collect donor bone marrow stem cells without having to puncture the bone. The process of mobilization is induced by administration of the drug G-CSF, which is approved by the FDA. One interesting…
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Scientists identify and isolate adult mammary stem cells in mice
(Times of India) It is well-known that stem cells exist in adult tissues. The most commonly known stem cell, the bone marrow stem cell, plays the physiological role of generating billions of blood cells per hour while being capable of making copies of itself. Subsequent to the discovery of the bone marrow stem cell in…
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Stem cell therapy benefits patients with chronic heart failure—study
(Neharika Sabharwal) After a heart attack the myocardium (heart muscle) undergoes a period of damage during which cells of the body attempt to heal the injured tissue. This occurs through stem cells found in the heart itself, called cardiac specific stem cells (CSC) as well as bone marrow stem cells which seem to exit the…
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Pluristem to take part in EU stem cell study
(Shiri Habib-Valdhorn, Globes [online], Israel business news) Broadly speaking there are two types of adult stem cell therapies: Those that involve the use of the patient’s own stem cells, called autologous, and those that involve use of another patient’s cells, called allogeneic. There are pros and cons to both approaches. In the autologous approach the…
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Pluristem’s Off-The-Shelf Placenta-Derived Cell Therapies
Pluristem announced that its "off the shelf" placental stem cells will be the focus of upcoming talking at investor and medical conferences. The company Pluristem is currently in Phase I trials assessing its unique bio-reactor expanded placental stem cells for the treatment of critical limb ischemia. In contrast to other therapies that use the patient’s…
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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,…