Comments on: Getting Hip, Boning Up with Adult Stem Cells

By: FRC Blog » Gumming Up Bones with Adult Stem Cells

FRC Blog » Gumming Up Bones with Adult Stem Cells — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:58:43 +0000

[...] on. Regrowth of jaw bone is just the most recent example of using adult stem cells for patients to stimulate hip bone growth and to repair non-healing bones. window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: [...]

By: Walt

Walt — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:08:42 +0000

So far there is very little research in neural tissue repair using adult derived stem cells. Neural tissue develops in the embryonic layer that is different from the layer in which bone tissue develops. Therefore is is presumed that adult stem cells derived from the bone marrow or fat of a human adult would not grow nerve tissue. Adult stem cells would have to be “tricked” into thinking they were – in the case of nerve tissue – ectodermic stem cells and that just has not happened yet, to the best of my knowledge.

Three is one study from , Inha University College, Inchon, South Korea by Hyung Chun Park, MD. They taught rats to swim across a tub of water and then cut their spinal cords, injected adult rat stem cells into the spine and put them back in the water to see if they used their hind legs to paddle. They did not. The authors thought that any motion in the hind legs was “sympathetic” action relating to the movement of their upper bodies.

Sorry – nothing yet.

By: FRC Blog » Healing Fractures Faster

FRC Blog » Healing Fractures Faster — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:56:07 +0000

[...] stem cells have shown the ability to stimulate healing of bone. Now Stanford scientists have used a protein that activates adult stem cells and progenitor cells [...]

By: CAROLINE CARR-LOCKE

CAROLINE CARR-LOCKE — Thu, 13 May 2010 10:14:36 +0000

DOES ANYONE ANYWHERE OUT THERE KNOW IF STEM CELLS COULD HELP/CURE My IDIOPATHIC AXONAL PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY NO RESEARCH IN SCOTLAND?UK
I feel as if at the AGE OF 66 i HAVE BEEN LEFT TO ROT in SCOTLAND