Regenocyte Therapeutic Reports Successful Treatment of Cardiomyopathy with Stem Cells

Regenocyte Therapeutic Reports Successful Treatment of Cardiomyopathy with Stem Cells

Posted in Longevity and Age Management, Cardio-Vascular, Death and Dying, Men’s Health, Stem Cell Research, Stem Cell Research on Mon February 23, 2009

Florida based Regenocyte Therapeutic is using stem cells extracted from patients’ blood to repair damaged heart muscle, regenerate tissue, and create new vessels to improve circulation.  According to the organization’s director of Cardiology and Vascular Disease, Zannos G. Grekos, M.D., by applying specific growth factors to the patient’s stem cells (in a lab) the team creates a new cell population which is educated to target the area of damage or deficiency when placed into the patient’s heart and blood vessels. “We’ve now treated close to 100 patients with their own stem cells and seen an average 22 point increase in ejection fraction (EF) with a significant improvement in heart failure classification – typically from a Class IV to a Class II status in less than 180 days,” Grekos states.

The treatment study, the first six months of which was published December 2008 in Anti-Aging Medical News, follows patients through one year post-treatment with autologous adult stem cells, also called Angiogenic Cardio-Regenerative Progenitor cells (ACP’s).  Regenocyte’s chief medical advisor Athina Kyritsis, M.D. announced that, “Across the board, no adverse effects from treatment were reported by patients and function plus quality of life measurably improved.” Grekos and his team measured patients’ heart function by cardiac nuclear scans, PET scans, and echocardiographs.

http://www.worldhealth.net/news/regenocyte_therapeutic_reports_successfu

Stem Cell Research – Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to stimulate stem cell formation

Move over Michael Jackson!

23 Feb 2009 12:09 pm

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to stimulate stem cell formation

hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy HBOT involves breathing pure oxygen to higher than atmospheric pressures in an enclosed chamber This treatment is used to treat divers who suffer from bends or decompression sickness.

The experts of Edinburgh University will conduct a clinical trial to study whether HBOT can improve liver functions and stimulate bone marrow stem cells.

via Stem Cell Research Blog » Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to stimulate stem cell formation.

CHEMO kills, ADULT STEM CELLS heal!

Chemo Patient

It saddens me to no end to see people dying from chemo.  Many suffering cancer patients are offered a 3% chance of their disease responding to chemo and they jump at it in their desperation because they either think or are told that chemo is there only alternative to death while “…many oncologists would not take chemotherapy themselves if they had cancer.” – The Cancer Chronicles, 1990.  All the  while, they could be gaining their health back with adult stem cell treatments.  – DG

“Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy….The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure—Hodgkin’s disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma.”—Ralph Moss, Ph.D. 1995 Author of Questioning Chemotherapy.

“NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000!”–Samuel Epstein.

“A study of over 10,000 patients shows clearly that chemo’s supposedly strong track record with Hodgkin’s disease (lymphoma) is actually a lie. Patients who underwent chemo were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and 6 times more likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints, and soft tissues than those patients who did not undergo chemotherapy (NCI Journal 87:10).”—John Diamond

While chemo does work in very select cases, there are tons of sources from respected medical practitioners regarding the toxicity and lack of significant positive benefits of chemo.  Here are a few (some of these are redundant, I did not have the time or the stomach to wade through the hundreds of negative chemo quotes):
http://www.whale.to/cancer/quotes1.html

http://www.oasisadvancedwellness.com/learning/chemo-quotes.html

http://www.frequencyrising.com/chemotherapy_quotes.htm

there are many more of these quotes for the interested

Did you know your child’s tooth can save their life down the road?

Sunday, February 22, 2009

MomToBeDepot focuses on educating and informing parents about important issues. Whether it’s a new product for mom or baby, a great book to read, or some service you just shouldn’t live without. After almost 2 years of writing this blog and the bigger site MomToBeDepot, I can honestly say this particular posting is the most important information I can pass along to parents. It’s about a company called StemSave.

What they are doing is absolutely incredible and a godsend to parents who take advantage of their service.

Let me back up a little bit. When you’re pregnant, you have the opportunity to store cord blood, so stem cells could be utilized down the road if your child becomes ill. But what if you didn’t take advantage of that at the time or if you’ve adopted a child and don’t have access to family medical history? StemSave is your second chance to save your child’s life. We spoke with CEO and treasurer of StemSave, Art Greco to learn about the company and the future direction of stem cell research.

Believe it or not, the healthy tissue within a tooth contains stem cells…

http://momtobedepot.blogspot.com/2009/02/did-you-know-your-childs-tooth-can-save.html

EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS, CLONING & ANIMAL OOCYTES FAIL TO DELIVER

dolly & her clone

“It had been hoped that substitute animal oocytes (immature egg cell) could help generate patient-specific stem cells for therapeutic applications.”

Damn and we were so close!  Now, in order to treat patients, we have to rely on adult stem cells from a persons own body which have proven over almost a decade of application that they work, have virtually no side effects, no potential for rejection and do not develop into tumors.  Wait, this is a good thing!

-DG

A blow for animal oocytes and embryonic stem cells

19 February 2009

A new study has demonstrated that animal oocytes lack the capacity to fully reprogramme adult human cells, delivering a blow to many in the scientific industry. It had been hoped that substitute animal oocytes could help generate patient-specific stem cells for therapeutic applications.

Since the cloning of Dolly the Sheep more than a decade ago, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) has been considered a promising method for creating personalized stem cells. Because of the shortage of human donor eggs, cows, rabbits and other animals have long been considered a possible surrogate source of eggs. Although previous reports have documented the formation of cloned embryos using both human and animal eggs, to date there have been no data indicating whether — and to what extent — the donor DNA was reprogrammed.

The study, published in Cloning and Stem Cells…

http://www.ptemag.com/pharmtecheurope/Latest+News/A-blow-for-animal-oocytes-and-stem-cells/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/581348?contextCategoryId=45298

Adult stem cells work now. End of story.

Scientists Await Action on Stem Cells

Some Proponents Had Expected Obama to Immediately Reverse Bush Policies

By Rob Stein – Washington Post Staff Writer – Thursday, February 19, 2009; Page A02

At the National Institutes of Health, officials have started drafting guidelines they will need to start funding human embryonic stem cell research that has been off-limits for nearly eight years.

At the University of California at San Francisco, scientists are poised to dismantle the cumbersome bureaucracy they created to segregate experiments that were acceptable under the federal restrictions from studies that were not.

At the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge, Mass., graduate students and other scientists paid with federal grants are eagerly awaiting the day when they can contribute their eureka moments to projects that are forbidden under the current policy.

But in the month since Inauguration Day, the moment they have been awaiting has not come, prompting some to ask: When will President Obama deliver on his campaign promise to lift one of the most contentious policies imposed by his predecessor?…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/18/AR2009021803174.html?wprss=rss_technology

HOW TO TRANSLATE THIS WEBSITE

Wow, a lot of people want to read this blog in their first language so here is how to translate this stem cell blog into other languages:

Click on the image above or cut and paste this link: http://translate.google.com/

Enter the site url: http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com

Select your preferred language.

You can then click through the website and all of the pages will be translated.

Have fun and contact me with any questions!

Regards-

David

CORD STEM CELLS ARE ADULT STEM CELLS – New Developments

New Stem Cell Developments

There are about 6,000 Americans who need a bone marrow transplant, daily.

For many, the odds of finding an outside donor have been pretty low, but that could start to change.

At Duke University’s medical center in North Carolina, sits little Elmor Bonilla. Just shy of his second birthday, Elmor has overcome obstacles and odds most people don’t face over a lifetime.

Elmor was born with Krabbe disease, a rare and often fatal disorder that attacks the central nervous system. His best shot at survival is a bone marrow transplant – immediately.

“It is critical that those transplantations for inherited metabolic diseases is done early,” transplate specialist Vinod Prasad said.

Despite no donor matches in his family and only a 30% chance of finding a match from an unrelated donor, Elmor got his transplant – not from bone marrow, but from umbilical cord blood. It too contains stem cells patients need.

“Cord blood can be as good as bone marrow transplantation,” said Prasad.

Even better, it may be available to more patients, because it doesn’t require a close match.

A Duke University study found children who received mismatched cord blood from unrelated donors had results similar to those who received unrelated matched bone marrow transplants.

“I would expect and hope that this analysis and analysis of other centers would encourage more transplant physicians to consider mismatch cord blood as a potential source of graft for more and more patients,” said Prasad.

Elmor came through the procedure with flying colors and is now ready to tackle being two.

The Duke researchers said the findings support cord blood as the stem cell source with the greatest potential to offer a transplant to almost every patient who needs one, regardless of race.

via KOMU.com – New Stem Cell Developments – Coverage You Can Count On.

STEM CELLS & PLURIPOTENCE

Please be careful when reading this article.  You must understand that the stem cells being discussed here have almost nothing in common with embryonic stem cells except for their ability to become any cell in the body (pluripotent).  So these stem cells are NOT “embryonic-like” but rather adult stem cells that are modified to become pluripotent…or “induced ploripotent stem cells” (iPSC).  Not to be confused with the

• International Practical Shooting Confederation
• Institute for the Protection and the Security of the Citizen (European Union)
• Inhibitory postsynaptic current, in neurobiology
• iPSC, any of several high-performance computers manufactured by Intel

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC) have:

1. All of the repair benefits of adult stem cells
2. The ability to become any cell in the human body
3. None of the “controversy” of embryonic stem cells
4. They do not become tumorous (leading to cancer) like ESC seem to
   
5. They do not require immune suppressive drugs like ESC
   

I’ll say it in other words.  These are modified ADULT STEM CELLS.  They are not embryonic stem cells.  A semantic difference for sure but the simple fact is; adult stem cells have a proven history outside the US of providing significant therapeutic benefit to human patients, embryonic don’t and now it would seem, adult stem cells can do anything that embryonic stem cells can.

-DG

Reported February 13, 2009

New Recipe Could Lead to Stem Cell Breakthrough

(Ivanhoe Newswire)- The formula scientists concocted to make adult stem cells work like embryonic-like stem cells is now much more simple to perform.

For the first time, a new report shows how neural stem cells taken from adult mice can take on characteristics of embryonic stem cells. Researchers made this discovery by adding a single transcription factor to the mix, a gene that controls the activity of other genes.

According to Hans Scholer of the Max Planck Instute for Molecular Biomedicine in Germany, the discovery sheds light on long standing questions about what distinguishes the embryonic stem cells that can trigger egg and sperm cells to develop from other body cells. The discovery might also help figure out how reprogrammed stem cells could be used to replace cells lost to disease or injury.

SOURCE: Cell, February 2009

via Ivanhoe’s Medical Breakthroughs – New Recipe Could Lead to Stem Cell Breakthrough.

STEM CELLS & TYPE 2 DIABETES

Stem Cell Research Uncovers Mechanism for Type 2 Diabetes

Published on 12 February 2009, 14:33 Last Update: 17 minute(s) ago by Insciences

Tags: Stem Cell Diabetes Medicine Progenitor cells

LA JOLLA, Calif., February 12, 2009—Taking clues from their stem cell research, investigators at the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) and Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have discovered that a signaling pathway involved in normal pancreatic development is also associated with type 2 diabetes. Their findings, published online January 9 in Experimental Diabetes Research, could provide a potential new target for therapy.

Pamela Itkin-Ansari, Ph.D., assistant adjunct professor at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and Burnham; Fred Levine, M.D., Ph.D., professor and director of the Sanford Children’s Health Research Center at Burnham, and colleagues showed that the Wnt signaling pathway is up-regulated in insulin producing cells of pancreases from adults with type 2 diabetes…

via insciences.org – Stem Cell Research Uncovers Mechanism for Type 2 Diabetes.