Etiqueta: stem cells
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Magnetic Attraction of Stem Cells to Injured Heart Creates Potent Treatment
The intracoronary administration of bone marrow stem cells in patients who have suffered a heart attack has been demonstrated to cause beneficial effects in double blind studies, as discussed in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flv0RmzPyLU. Intracoronary administration has potential side effects since a balloon needs to be expanded in the area where the heart attack occurred, which…
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Using Stem Cells to Study Alcohol Dependence
One of the major advancements in the area of stem cell research has been the establishment of techniques for "retro-differentiating" of old cells into younger cells. Perhaps one of the best examples of this is the discovery by the Japanese group of Yamanaka the skin cells can be coaxed to take the resemblance of embryonic…
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Stem-cell therapy feels Food and Drug Administration’s pinch
62-year-old Hal Kaye had an injection of his own stem cells into his injured ankle, the results were so astonishing that he no longer needed surgery. The treatment, developed by a Broomfield doctor, has been applied to over 500 patients in the United States, primarily for orthopedic conditions, and involves extraction of bone marrow stem…
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Can A Nutritional Supplement Grow Stem Cells?
The Center for Improvement of Human Functioning International (CIHFI) was lead author on a peer reviewed study published in the Journal of Translational Medicine http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/pdf/1479-5876-8-34.pdf describing how Stem-Kine, a commercially available nutritional supplement, significantly elevated levels of two types of stem cells in circulation. This appears to be the first publication in the peer-reviewed literature…
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Cord Blood Stem Cell Therapy for Cerebral Palsy in Clinical Trial
Cerebral palsy is characterized by hypoxia/reperfusion induced damaged to the brain in the perinatal period. It is manifested in four main types: a) Spastic, which occurs in 70-80% of cases and is associated with damage to the corticospinal tract or the motor cortex; b) Ataxic, occurs in 10%, is associated with damage to the cerebrum,…
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Stem Cell Treatment for Heart Attacks: Timing is Everything
Skeletal myoblasts are a type of muscle-specific stem cell that have been used previously in several clinical trials, particularly for heart failure and post-heart attack patients. Advantages of this type of stem cell include the fact that they are from adult sources (no risk of cancer), they are already committed to becoming muscle cells, and…
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Contract’s end means changes for stem cell scene
In 2005 WiCell, a nonprofit organization affiliated with the University of Wisconsin was charged with creating and maintaining a national embryonic stem cell bank supported by the Federal Government. At that time the 21 embryonic stem cell lines that were approved by former president George W. Bush’s administration were made available for researchers. The importance…
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Ahmedabad-based institutes get patent to use stem cells in kidney transplant
According to an article IndianExpress.com, an international patent has been issued to the G R Doshi K M Mehta Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre (IKDRC) and Dr HL Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences (ITS) from Ahmedabad, Indian for utilization of stem cells in treatment of patients having undergone kidney transplantation. Given that we…
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Adult Stem Cells Healing Hearts
Adult stem cells are being more and more used in patients to achieve effects. In the treatment of patients with heart failure, Dr. David Prentice, discussed two studies in which adult stem cells appear to have some benefit. The first study was the result of a Brazil-Florida joint effort in which it was discovered that…
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Stem Cells for HIV?
HIV infection causes its devastating effects on patients by destruction of the CD4 T helper cell and macrophage component of the immune system. Entry of the virus into these cells occurs via binding to the molecules CD4 and CCR5. Interestingly a group of patients who appear to be resistant to HIV infection have a mutation…