Etiqueta: disease
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Treatment Spotlight: Stem Cell Therapy for Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis can affect every aspect of your joints. Some think it and its effects are inevitable as we get older, but that doesn’t have to be the case. Stem cell therapy for osteoarthritis can help you experience improvements in the use of your joints. Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease that can affect people…
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Allogenic mesenchymal stem cells transplantation in refractory systemic lupus erythematosus: a pilot clinical study.
Liang et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 2010 Aug;69(8):1423-9. Mesenchymal stem cells are unique in that on the one hand they are capable of differentiating into a variety of tissues, but on the other hand they also are potently anti-inflammatory and immune modulatory. Evidence of immune modulation comes from studies that show mesenchymal stem cells: a)…