Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cells Could Repair Heart Tissue »
Posted By SenorCoconut 6 months ago in NewsResearchers have demonstrated for the first time that injecting adult bone marrow stem cells into skeletal muscle can repair cardiac tissue.
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chevydog6 months ago
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So am I understanding it correctly that stem cells are recovered from bone marrow, then injected into somewhere. Thus improving heart function? Sounds pretty cool when it's said that way.
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I know that getting bone marrow samples taken is not supposed to be particularly hard; though mine was. How much marrow is needed for how many stem cells? And how many stem cells are needed for the heart treatment? Speaking from my own case again, it took them three days of processing to recover 2.5 million stem cells from my blood. I was told that this was pretty much the norm.
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Endoscopy6 months ago
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This procedure works very well. I heard about this months ago. The injection heals the heart very fast. A person goes from hardly able to get out of bed and require help walking to walking normally in just three weeks. The heart seems to totally heal within a couple of months. When I heard about this on Radio they were going into the last double blind study with the accepting into the program the ones that did not get the real injection thereby letting all participants get the treatment.
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quackpot6 months ago
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While promising, it is quite an exaggeration to say that "the procedure works very well". The one positive trial to date (the FIRSTLINE-AMI study) has not been replicated in subsequent trials (the REVEALII and STEMMI trials).
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The idea is an active area of investigation, but it is still in the early experimental stages.
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jillyjean26 months ago
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Whenever they allow the ones who didn't get the treatment to get the treatment during a testing of a substance you have to know it worked quite well! I remember when they were doing studies on premature infants with IRDS using bovine surfactant. When the results were so dramatic on those receiving the surfactant as compared to those who received nothing, they stopped the testing and gave it to all the test subjects. It is now a standard treatment for premies, saving thousands of lives each day and giving good quality of life to those premies who survive! Yes there are a few who don't make it, but at least they got a better chance at it when you think of the former outcomes!
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acowan736 months ago
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The anti stem cell folks damned the use of stem cells regardless of where they were garnered by cleverly con joining Abortion with stem cell therapy. The result was chaotic and distorted anti stem cell legislation that set the cause back untold years.Now the truth is coming out and we are getting a sneak preview of whats to come in the field of "ok to use" stem cells.Dozens of diseases will benfit from stem cell therapy which regenerates tisssue and bone mass and restores muscular function. Parkinson's,Memory loss, Spinal chord damage,and countless others.I wont live to see this miracle of medicine come to fruition but fervently pray that it will
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