Angsuman Chakraborty22 Jul 2008 10:05 pm
Now people suffering from Spinal Cord injury could avail a new non-surgical therapy which will help them to recover faster.
Kostantinos Meletis, a postdoctoral fellow at the Picower Institute, and colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden developed an innovating non-surgical treatment for the debilitating spinal cord injuries with the help of spinal cord stem cells.
The stem cells are the cells that are found in the developing embryo. These cells can differentiate into all type of specialized tissues of the body. In adults, stem cells act as a repair system, replenishing specialized cells. The stem cells within the adult spinal cord proliferate slowly or rarely. Sometimes it may fail to promote regeneration on their own.
Recent experiments shows that if these stem cells are grown in a lab and are placed in the injury site, then they can restore some function of the paralyzed rodents or primates.
A study was done by konstantinos Meletis and his colleagues to find the subpopulation of stem cells, and their ability to repair damaged nerve cells.
They found that after injury, the ependymal cells (neural stem cells) proliferate and migrate to the injured area, and produces a mass of scar-forming cells plus fewer cells known as oligodendrocytes. These oligodendrocytes restore the myelin, or coating, on the nerve cells long slender, electrical impulse-carrying projections called axons.
If scientists genetically manipulate ependymal cells within the spinal cord and help them differentiating into more-healing cells and fewer scarring cells after an injury then it may help the portion to restore its function back without surgery.
Source: www.sciencedaily.com
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October 23rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
If any of the mention above stem cell articles are true, PLEASE TELL ME WHICH IS SO I CAN WALK AGAIN
PLEASE HELP ME TO ACHIVE MY GOAL AND END THIS 12 -13 YEAR QUADRIPLEGIC NIGHTMARE
November 17th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Please tell me how much. I mightt not afford the stem cell if it is very expensive. I want to walk again.
December 20th, 2008 at 3:53 am
sir
my wife is a quadriplegic after met with a road traffic accident in the year 2000 october 12, she has a spinakl injury at c6-c7 level and has no sensation afte the level, no bladder or bnowel control pls let me know weather stem cell theraphy will help her to improve her quality of life
January 12th, 2009 at 4:30 am
We are in despreat for our brother who is now paralized after a bike accident three months ago and our docter informed last week that he will be discharged from hospital after his condition is stable and they cant do anything to help him walk or recover from his disability.
After reading your message it bring us hope and i would like to forward our brother’s medical report or docter’s report to whom can help us with his treatment and we will meet any cost of this operation.
He is 23 yrs of age and got alot ahead for him in the future therefore we will strugle to help him.
Thank you
Squire Jeremiah
March 15th, 2009 at 7:30 am
my spinal cord was injured in accedent so i am not walk properly . my bladder is not control . is this treatment repair my problem . and where are this non surgical therapy i am take