The current issue of CELL TRANSPLANTATION (Vol. 17:4) features a number of publications by researchers seeking new ways to treat Parkinson’s disease (PD), a neurological ...
... months after the second transplant due to other complications.
Progress in islet cell transplantation has been limited by the shortage of donor organs, said Oberholzer, who is associate professor of ...
... among severely immunocompromised individuals. Despite aggressive surveillance and prophylaxis, its incidence in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients hovers around 10%, and the three-month ...
... could have a protective effect on dying motor neurons. The team had previously shown that hUBC cell transplants reduced inflammation and provided neuroprotection in models of stroke and Alzheimer's ...
... common genetic disorder leading to death in childhood. There is currently no cure for SMA, but some clinicians and researchers consider stem cell transplantation as a potential therapeutic strategy...
Two studies involving cardiac cell transplantation have shown an evolving role for bone marrow cells in cardiac cell therapy. The implantation of heart muscle cells and subsequent ...
A biological tit for tat may hold clues to improving the success of islet cell transplants intended to cure type 1 diabetes, according to a Medical College of Georgia scientist.
... Gene Therapy, could pave the way for routine use of cell transplants as a therapy for type 1 diabetes ... three proteins were not optimal, because ultimately the cells did get rejected," says Dr. Goldstein ...
Cell Transplantation - The Regenerative Medicine Journal, the number two journal ranked by impact factor in the field of transplantation, has become an "open access" journal from the 1st January 2009, ...
Early attempts at islet cell transplantation to treat diabetes date to the nineteenth century, decades before the discovery of insulin in the 1930s. In recent years, research has focused on the ...
... autologous non-myeloablative haematopoietic stem-cell transplantion.
"We focus on destroying only the immune component of ... immune stem cells into late-stage MS patients. "It didn't help in the late ...
... study found that autologous nonmyeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in 15 patients with newly ... showed a significant increase at 24 months after transplantation (785.4 ng/mL per ...
... diabetes who underwent a certain type of stem cell transplantation became insulin free, several ... -peptide levels, an indirect measure of beta-cell function, according to a study in the April 15 issue ...
... help increase the success of blood stem cell transplants, a procedure currently used to treat diseases ... function as the thymic gates for migrating stem cells. The new study, published in the April issue ...
... from the effects of spinal cord injury (SCI). However, in studies using embryonic stem cells transplanted into SCI laboratory animals, a serious drawback has been the development of tumors following ...
