Etiqueta: stem cells
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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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Stem Cells Restore Tissue Affected By Acute Lung Injury
Researchers from the University of California San Francisco presented data today at the ATS 2010 International Conference in New Orleans demonstrating activity of adult stem cells in treatment of acute lung injury. This is a common condition in intensive care units that causes respiratory failure and often leads to death. The cause of acute lung…
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Dylan’s hope (Stem Cell Therapy for Cerebral Palsy)
The possibility of using stem cells to treat cerebral palsy has been suggested by several scientists based on the ability of these cells to: a) stimulate regeneration of damaged nervous system tissue; b) to prevent ongoing death of neurons; and c) to directly turn into, or "differentiate" into neurons. This is explained in the video…
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Hope for Brain Injury Victims
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major health problem caused by a sudden trauma to one or more areas of the brain. Today the conventional method of treating patients with TBI is based on administration of supplements to rebalance the brain’s chemistry. In the early phases of TBI reduction of the ongoing inflammation using various…
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Stem Cells Regrow Crucial Hearing Cells in Mice
Hearing loss is a significant problem. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders 15 percent of Americans between 20 and 69, or 26 million people, have high frequency hearing loss caused by noise. Antibiotics and genetic disorders have also been identified as causative factors. Recently a study led by Dr. Kazuo…
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Stem Cells Have GPS to Generate Proper Nerve Cells
One of the main questions in stem cell therapy is how the injected cells "know" to find their way into the specific parts of the body where they are needed. The most common example of stem cells homing is during bone marrow transplant. In this situation donor stem cells are administered to the recipient intravenously,…
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Transient Inhibition of Transforming Growth Factor-{beta}1 in Human Diabetic CD 34+ Cells Enhances Vascular Reparative Functions
CD34 cells are primarily known for their hematopoietic activity, which means, that they are capable of making blood cells. More recently, studies have demonstrated that a subset of CD34 cells are capable of creating new blood vessel cells called endothelial cells. The ability to made new endothelial cells is important because old/dysfunctional blood vessel cells…
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Natural Compound in Broccoli Slows Breast Cancer Stem Cells
The area of cancer stem cells is very hot. To give an example, the pharmaceutical company GSK recently purchased the cancer stem cell company Oncomed for more than a billion dollars, at a time when Oncomed’s cancer stem cell-targeting drugs were not even tested in humans. This area is of great interest because it suggests…
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Muscular Dystrophy Sufferers Hope New Treatment Can Answer Prayers
Adult stem cell therapy has been used for many diseases including heart failure, liver failure, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and even drug resistant tuberculosis. The biological basis for how stem cell therapy works seems to be two-fold. On the one hand, the stem cells appear to have the ability to become new tissues, on the other…
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Saginaw stem-cell therapy study breaking new ground
Use of stem cells for treatment of degenerative diseases offers great hope. Unfortunately, this hope is tempered by practical considerations. For example, in patients with heart attacks it is known that readministration of their own stem cells into the infarct related area results in profound improvement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flv0RmzPyLU. The problem with this is that stem cells…