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Bone Marrow Stem Cell Background
[Watch the Video] This is a general introductory video about stem cells derived from the bone marrow and therapeutic uses.
Cord blood transplants without immune suppression
[Watch the Video] Dogma in the world of hematologists/oncologists says you can't transplant cord blood across allogeneic barriers without the use of immune suppression. This video explains why that dogma may be wrong.
Use of stem cells for heatstroke
Tainan, Taiwan - The use of stem cells for induction of antiinflammatory response in chronic conditions is feasible at face value. However, the possibility of harnessing antiinflammatory activities of stem cells in acute situations is very intriguing. In a recent study (Chen et al. Human umbilical cord blood-derived CD34+ cells cause attenuation of multiorgan...
Tracking Neural Stem Cells
Stanford, CA - Scientific investigation of cellular therapy whether for regenerative purposes or for immune modulation (ie adoptive transfer of activated NK, LAK, or T cells) has always benefited from the ability to actually see where the implanted cells are going in an in vivo setting. In a recent paper (Guzman et al. Long-term monitoring of transplanted human...
Clinical Trials of Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Critical Limb Ischemia Treatment by Stem Cells
Stem Cell Therapy for Autism
Autoimmunity by non-Th1 cells
Minneapolis, MN - Old school immunology divided responses into Th1 (inflammatory, intracellular responses) and Th2 (antibody mediated, extracellular responses). Classical autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 Diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis were considered primarily Th1 type diseases. More recently, the "dogma" of Th1/Th2 immunity has been subjected to numerous...
hTERT GFP for stem cell detection
Kyoto, Japan – The concept of each tissue containing resident stem cells is not new. For example, it is known that in the liver, hepatic epithelial cells expressing common markers for hepatic and stem cells such as CD90, CD44 and CD29 act as precursors, capable of generating new hepatic tissue following injury (Khuu et al. Epithelial cells...
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Embryonic Stem Cell for Tympanic Healing
Stockholm, Sweden - Otitis media (ear infection) occurs in many young children and sometimes results in perforation of the tympanic membrane. Although surgical treatments are available for perforated membranes, these are quite painful. In a recent study embryonic stem cells were used to accelerate healing of experimentally damaged tympanic membranes (Rahman et al. Healing time, long-term...