Emory Study Tests Bone Marrow Stem Cells to Improve Circulation in Legs
Physicians at Emory University School ofMedicine are conducting a clinical trial using stem cells generatedwithin the bone marrow to grow new blood vessels that could improvecirculation in patients with blockages in the arteries of their legs --a condition called (PVD). Individuals with PVD...Stem cells in bone marrow replenish mouse ovaries
Previously unrecognized stem cells found in the bone marrow and blood of mice can "restock" a depleted ovary with new egg cells within weeks, according to new research published in this week's issue of the journal Cell. This finding provides direct evidence to overturn a long-held dogma in reproductive biology, that female mice generate egg cells only during fetal development and thus are...Malfunctioning bone marrow cells sabotage nerve cells in diabetes
Malfunctioning bone marrow cells that produce insulin appear to cause a dangerous nerve condition called neuropathy that disables many people with diabetes, said a research team led by Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The report from researchers at BCM, Shiga University of Medical Science in Japan, and the University of Chicago appears online today in the Proceedings of the National...Bone marrow stem cells may heal hearts even years after heart attacks
Left ventricular function and exercise capacity increased, while the area of heart muscle damage shrank, in 18 patients given infusions of their own bone marrow stem cells up to eight years after a heart attack, according to a new study in the Nov. 1, 2005, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. "This new therapy is able to treat until now irreversible heart complaints...New research demonstrates bone-marrow derived stem cells can reverse genetic kidney disease
The discovery that bone-marrow derived stem cells can regenerate damaged renal cells in an animal model of Alport syndrome provides a potential new strategy for managing this inherited kidney disease and offers the first example of how stem cells may be useful in repairing basement membrane matrix defects and restoring organ function. Led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Ce...GIBCO MarrowMAX Bone Marrow Medium from Invitrogen
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, and Lawrence B. Schook, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign The transfer of genes into eukaryotic cells permits the study of many things, such as gene regulation, gene structure, and gen...Total marrow irradiation using TomoTherapy System performed at City of Hope
"We wanted to explore the use of TomoTherapy to selectively deliver radiation therapy to the entire marrow compartment, sparing radiation to critical normal organs such as lung, heart, b...Creating brain cells from bone marrow
Researchers have recently found a way of creating brain cells out of bone marrow cells which opens up the possibility of grafts for Parkinson's disease. At the Peterson Medical College scientists grew stem cells from adult bone marrow in a finely-tuned cocktail of growth factors and other chemicals and found they could get them to convert into neurons. Normally such stem cells form mu...Bone marrow transplants for limbs
Scientists have observed that bone marrow cells can make new blood vessels, when transplanted into limbs with poor circulation. In peripheral arterial disease, circulation in the legs is severely restricted because the arteries are narrowed. //The result is pain and disability. In severe cases, the limb may even need amputation to avoid gangrene and death. Researchers in Osaka, Japan,...Calcium Receptor Vital For Stem Cell Migration to Bone Marrow
A new discovery of a dictator molecule that governs the migration of blood stem cells to the bone marrow, resulting in subsequent production of blood cell components and immune stem cells could // hold the key to the development of more effective stem cell therapy for malignant and non-malignant conditions in the future. "This is another remarkable example of how bone and bone marrow...Bone marrow stem cells may help repair cardiac tissues
Two new studies, though small, have boosted confidence in a method used to repair cardiac tissues damaged by a heart attack. Researchers have found that stem cells derived from bone marrow which is much less controversial than embryo cells// helps patients who have had a heart attack and had undergone conventional bypass therapy. Doctors in eastern Germany found that when patients who...Bones repair themselves with bone marrow cells
A research project carried out by Juliette van den Dolder at the University of Nijmegen has shown that new bone cells can be grown into bone fractures with the help of specially prepared titanium mesh and bone marrow cells. Researchers inserted a titanium mesh scaffold into a bone fracture in a rat. They allowed bone marrow cells to grow on this. This resulted in new bone growth being stimulated...HLA Bone Marrow Transplantation Evaluation
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St. Jude study shows mesenchymal cells in bone marrow supplyleukemic cells with the amino acid asparagine, restoring thiscritical nutrient when it is depleted by the cancer drugasparaginase MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 22, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- The cancer drugasparaginase fails to help cure some children with acutelymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) because molecules released by certaincells in the bon...