Etiqueta: multiple sclerosis
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Coach’s fight a team effort
Sam Harrell is a well-known Ennis football coach and father of Texas Tech’s former quarterback Graham Harrell. Steve Betik has worked in construction for decades. Both of them suffer from multiple sclerosis. When they asked the Ennis chiropractor Dr. William Davis about using stem cells for their condition, his reaction was that it would be…
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Hope Through Stem Cell Therapy
Mary Posta suffers from multiple sclerosis, a debilitating disease that progressively degenerates the nervous system of its victims through stripping away the insulator proteins surrounding the nerves called myelin. In January of this year Mary Posta completed raising funds to be treated by Cellmedicine in Central America using stem cells and returned from treatment feeling…
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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.
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Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. Announces Private Placement
Stem Cell Therapeutics is a biotechnology company from Calgary Canada that is developing a novel type of stem cell therapy: instead of administering stem cells, they give drugs that activate the patient’s own stem cells.
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Stem Cell Awareness Day Events Planned in California
Among other places, the University of California at Merced is observing Stem Cell Awareness Day with a series of events on campus that highlight the latest developments in the field.
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Horse Benefits From Adult Stem Cells
Once again, applications of adult stem cell therapy in veterinary medicine continue to race ahead of human medicine.
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Russian Stem Cell Company Plans IPO
Russia’s Human Stem Cell Institute has announced that it is seeking funding from investors in what promises to be Russia’s first initial public offering in over a year.