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Stroke Calls Stem Cells
Nice, France - It is known that after myocardial infarction stem cells exit the bone marrow and enter systemic circulation, possibly as a response to chemoattractants released by injured myocardium. In a recent study (Dunac et al. Neurological and functional recovery in human stroke are associated with peripheral blood CD34+ cell mobilization. J Neurol. 2007 Mar;254(3):327-32) a similar...Wednesday August 1st, 2007 @ 19:17:56 EST
Insulin transfected mesenchymals for diabetes
Nantong, China - While numerous groups are trying to treat diabetes by inducing differentiation of stem cells into insulin producing cells, other groups are simply transfecting the gene for insulin (or proinsulin) into stem cells and administering the cells. While transfection ensures that the gene will be expressed, it does not...Wednesday August 1st, 2007 @ 09:41:17 EST
DNA Immunization for Cancer
[Watch the Video] This video describes a publication that uses "naked" DNA to immunize patients with prostate cancer so as to induce immunity to the antigen PSA. While, T cell mediated immunity was induced, this was primarily in patients treated with higher vaccine doses. The relevance of this to the stem cell community is that as we start identifying antigens specific to cancer stem...Wednesday August 1st, 2007 @ 09:38:34 EST
Stem Cell Therapy for Cerebral Palsy
[Watch the Video] This video describes the scientific rationale for utilization of stem cells to treat cerebral palsy. Few people know that cerebral palsy was treated by Dr. Kurtzburg from Duke using cord blood stem cells. This is described in the video.Saturday July 28th, 2007 @ 15:06:24 EST
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Prolactin protects white matter
Calgary, Canada - A recent paper (Gregg et al. White matter plasticity and enhanced remyelination in the maternal CNS.J Neurosci. 2007 Feb 21;27(8):1812-23) describes an increased generation of myelin-forming oligodendrocytes and increased number of myelinated axons in mice that are pregnant as compared to female controls. The study also demonstrated increased ability to repair white...Sunday July 22nd, 2007 @ 02:20:14 EST
G-CSF for Spinal Cord Injury
Newark, NJ - Numerous stem cell therapeutic approaches are currently under investigation for spinal cord injury. Although it has been demonstrated in animal models that stem cells possess various repairative properties, an important and often overlooked property of stem cells is their ability to produce numerous trophic factors capable of stimulating endogenous healing processes. In a...Saturday July 21st, 2007 @ 23:22:40 EST
Stem Cell Treatment for Autism
Stem Cell Clinic Publishes First Peer Reviewed Paper on Autism Stem Cell Therapy SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Institute for Cellular Medicine (www.cellmedicine.com) announced today what appears to be the first publication in a peer reviewed journal outlining scientific rationale for the use of stem cells in the treatment of autism. “The application of stem cell therapy to autism, a...Sunday July 15th, 2007 @ 16:05:59 EST
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Depleting Cancer Stem Cells by Blocking Hedgehog
Baltimore, MD - It is believed that tumor stem cells share various characteristics with their non-malignant counterparts, such as expression of CD133. In a recent study (Bar et al. Cyclopamine-Mediated Hedgehog Pathway Inhibition Depletes Stem-Like Cancer Cells in Glioblastoma. Stem Cells. 2007 Jul 12) glioblastoma cells were shown...Sunday July 15th, 2007 @ 00:32:06 EST
Stem Cell Therapy for Autism
[Watch the Video] This video is of a patient who recieved stem cell therapy for autism. The use of stem cell therapy for autism has recently been proposed in the publication Ichim et al. Stem cell therapy for autism. J Transl Med. 2007 Jun 27;5:30Friday July 13th, 2007 @ 20:16:58 EST
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