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jimdoze6 months ago

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" ...that injecting adult bone marrow stem cells into skeletal muscle... "

Just thought I would highlight the fact that these are not embryonic stem cells.

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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.
  
  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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