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Transplantation Of Monkey Embryonic Stem Cells Reverses Parkinson Disease In Primates

The replenishment of missing neurons in thebrain as a treatment for Parkinson disease reached the stage of humantrials over 15 years ago, however the field is still in its infancy.Researchers from Kyoto University have now shown thatdopamine-producing neurons (DA neurons) generated from monkey embryonicstem cells and transplanted into areas of the brain where these neuronshave degenerated i...

Circles Of DNA Might Help Predict Success Of Stem Cell Transplantation

Measuring the quantity of a certain type of immune cell DNA in the blood could help physicians predict whether a bone marrow stem cell transplant will successfully restore a population of infection-fighting cells called T lymphocytes in a child. This research, by investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, is published in the journal Blood. This finding could help physicians p...

World-first Living Donor Islet Cell Transplant A Success; Procedure Offers Promise For Diabetics

A University of Alberta and Capital Health surgeon, well known for his pioneering work in developing the Edmonton Protocol treatment for diabetes, has taken another important step in the fight against diabetes. On January 19, at Kyoto University Hospital, Dr. Koichi Tanaka and Dr. James Shapiro, along with a team of Japanese surgeons, removed part of a 56-year-old woman's pancreas. Dr. Sh...

First North American Encapsulated Islet Transplant without Long-term Immune Suppression into a Patient with Type 1 Diabetes

Biologists at the University of Liverpool have discovered how the plagues of the Middle Ages have made around 10% of Europeans resistant to HIV. Scientists have known for some time that these individuals carry a genetic mutation (known as CCR5-delta32) that prevents the virus from entering the cells of the immune system but have been unable to account for the high levels of the gene in Scandinavi...

Single-donor Islet Transplantation Procedure Shows Promise For Patients With Type 1 Diabetes

Patients with type 1 diabetes who received islet transplantation from a single donor pancreas were insulin independent one year later, according to a study in the February 16 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on medical applications of biotechnology. Type 1 diabetes remains a therapeutic challenge, according to background information in the article. The success rate of islet (cells that produc...

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Transplanted company gets $135,000 from state

A biotech company moving to Madison from Chicago is being welcomed with open arms and open checkbook by the state. Governor Jim Doyle announced earlier this week that Technology Ve...

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Infant receives first bloodless liver transplant

An Iowa infant aged 7 months was the first recipient of a bloodless liver transplant in Los Angeles, the United States of America. The seven month old, Aiden Michael Rush, whose parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses are prohibited by their religion to receive transfusions. The boy received 20% of his mother’s liver during the transplantation on February 7th at the children’s hospital i...

Liver donors can thrive after transplant

Contrary to belief that donating liver can injure the donor, it is now established without doubt that a living person can donate a part of his liver to a person needing it. And the good news is that the donor would continue to live well and thrive after donating part of his/her liver. Donation of a piece of the liver's right lobe from one adult to another is a relatively new procedure. I...

ATG useful in transplant patients as substitute for steroids

Anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG), a compound made from rabbit antibodies appears to be as effective as routine steroids in reducing rejection of transplanted organs without any of the side effects, according to Dr. James Eason of the Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Center in New Orleans. In the largest study on steroid-free treatment of liver transplants, Dr. Eason found patients treated with ATG had...

Stem cell transplantation of eye

In a significant breakthrough, a team of scientists have successfully transplanted cultured stem cells from the healthy eye to the diseased one, bringing light to the people who nearly lost their sight in accidents. Sustaining the current excitement about stem cells, in all 33 patients who suffered from conditions such as chemical burns, allergic reactions to drug and auto-immune diseases cau...

Woman gets cancer from transplanted kidney

For a person with failing kidneys, receiving a transplanted kidney can be a lifesaver. But in rare cases, the transplanted organ may pass on cancer to the recipient. Wisconsin researchers report that a transplant recipient whose donor had previously had lung cancer developed cancer herself several years after her transplant. // The woman has made a full recovery, but her case unders...

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Greene Renal Transplant Stent Set

Description:Used to establish temporary internal drainage from the ureteropelvic junction to the bladder following renal transplant. Non-radiopaque ink bands serve as a visual countdown mechanism so the physician can anticipate where the coil(s) will form as he/she places the stent. Supplied sterile in peel-open packages. Intended for one-time use. CAUTION: Periodic evaluation is advised; stent must not rema...
Company:Cook Urological

Geggel Corneal Transplant Marker

Description:These markers are available with 16 or 24 circular inner and outer teeth, and have an inner 6.5mm diameter, and an outer 9.5mm diameter. The markers are designed to mark the donor and recipient corneas in one single step for a 16 or 24 running bite suture placement. Each marker places inner and outer points on the cornea to achieve a precise and rapid 16 or 24 bite anti-torque closure. The specia...
Company:Rhein Medical, Inc.

HLA Bone Marrow Transplantation Evaluation

Description:ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' clients include more than half of the nation's university teaching hospitals and children's hospitals, maj...
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Velcade (bortezomib) for Injection Based Induction Therapy Delivered High Post-Transplant Complete Remission Rate, a Critical Marker for Increased Overall Survival

- New Data from Phase III Intergroupe Francophone du Myelome (IFM)Trial Presented During IMW - CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 02, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today reported that new data werepresented on the comparative Phase III clinical trial evaluating aVELCADE based therapy in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM)patients. As induction therapy prior to stem...

Stanford Researchers Track Human Stem Cells Transplanted Into Rat Brain

STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 4, 2007 - Researchers at theStanford University School of Medicine have illuminated the pathtaken by human neural stem cells that were transplanted into thebrains of rats and mice, and found that the cells successfullynavigate toward areas damaged by stroke. The research group placed miniscule particles of iron insidestem cells to act as cellular bea...

LifeCycle Pharma Announces Positive Phase I Clinical Results for its Transplantation Product Candidate, LCP-Tacro

Heads into US Phase II Clinical Trials for Organ Transplantation HORSHOLM, Denmark, May 31, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --LifeCycle Pharma announces positive Phase I clinical results forits transplantation product candidate, LCP-Tacro - Heads into USPhase II clinical trials for organ transplantation. Today LifeCycle Pharma A/S (OMX:LCP) announces positive resultsfrom its Phase I cli...

Isotechnika Announces Interim Three Month Data from Phase 2b Kidney Transplant Trial

EDMONTON, May 07, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Isotechnika Inc.today announced the audited three month results, reviewed by theData Monitoring Committee, of the first third of the patientstreated in its Phase 2b de novo kidney transplant trial for theCompany's lead immunosuppressive drug, ISA247. This interim analysis is based upon the assessment of the first116 patients enrolled....

Argos Therapeutics Presents Immunosuppression Data for Soluble CD83 at the American Society of Transplantation Congress 2007

DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2007 - Argos Therapeuticstoday announced the presentation of data on the immunosuppressiveproperties of soluble CD83 at the 7th Joint American Transplantmeeting to be held in San Francisco, May 5-9. The presentationswill be made in collaboration with scientists at the University ofWestern Ontario. "These data suggest that soluble CD83 is able to exten...

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