Scientists can either harvest the cells directly from the patient,
harvest them from another patient, or they can genetically reprogram adult cells.
Next, T cells — the immune system's foot soldiers — are
harvested from the patient's blood and infected with the virus, which rewrites their genetic code to recognize and destroy cancer cells.
Stem Cell Treatments Due to the ability of adult stem cells to be
harvested from the patient, their therapeutic potential is the focus of much research.
To uncover the identities and roles of these channels in humans, Donald Welsh and colleagues from the University of Calgary investigated smooth muscle cells from cerebral arteries
harvested from patients undergoing brain surgery.
«Our study results highlight that in a young athletic population, allografts (tissue harvested from a donor) fail more frequently than using autografts (tissue
harvested from the patient),» said Craig R. Bottoni, MD, lead author from Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Autologous cells
harvested from the patient, expanded ex vivo and then introduced back into the patient's body.
They are
harvested from the patient's own body, commonly referred as «adult stem cells» or Mesenchymal.
Not exact matches
If such
patients were «defined as dead,» all questions about care for PVS
patients would be instantly resolved, and
harvesting organs
from them would not violate U.S. law that prohibits
harvesting organs
from living
patients (108).
Cell biologist Desmond Tobin spends his days
harvesting organs
from cosmetic surgery
patients.
Beginning in the 1970s, physicians learned how to
harvest skin stem cells
from a
patient with extensive burn wounds, grow them in the laboratory, then apply the lab - grown tissue to close and protect a
patient's wounds.
Or surgeons can
harvest bone
from elsewhere in a
patient's body and carve it to fit where they need to, «but this is very hard on
patients,» Vunjak - Novakovic says.
Until recently, Ain was renowned for a highly prized repository of 18 immortal cancer cell lines, which he developed by
harvesting tissue
from his
patients» tumors after removal, carefully culturing them to everlasting life in vials.
When possible, doctors typically
harvest a piece of a vein
from a
patient to make this bypass, called a shunt.
Plus, hopes for therapeutic cloning rest on the ability to produce embryonic stem cells
from cells
harvested from diseased
patients.
To make the vaccine, cancer cells are
harvested from a tumor after surgery and stripped of their proteins; then those proteins are cultured with dendritic cells, a subclass of white blood cells, drawn
from the
patient's blood.
Since the 1970s tissue engineers have been figuring out how to grow skin, bone, cartilage, and even parts of vital organs using cells
harvested directly
from patients.
Asst Prof Cleo Choong, a materials scientist
from the School of Materials Science and Engineering said the active ingredient ANGPTL4 can be
harvested from discarded fatty tissues
from patients in hospitals.
An infection can develop in the surgical wound of either the
patient's sternum (chest) or leg if a vein was
harvested from the leg for the bypass.
If CTL019 is approved, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant plans to dole it out
from about 30 preapproved sites, each trained in the multi-step process of
harvesting cells, handling the product, and treating
patients for the feverish and often life - threatening immune response that usually accompanies CAR - T therapy.
«You only get one chance to carve a
harvested graft
from a
patient's rib, so you have to do it perfectly the first time,» she says.
HSCs can be
harvested from a suitable donor and then transplanted into a
patient, where, after establishing themselves in the bone marrow, they can generate healthy blood cells.
Currently, surgeons working to reroute blood around an obstruction must
harvest healthy veins
from elsewhere in the
patient's body.
More recently, physicians have learned how to
harvest blood - forming stem cells
from a donor's blood and transplant them into a
patient, sidestepping the need for an operating room and a needle stick into the pelvis to extract bone marrow.
In Germany, for example, the Munich - based biotech company apceth has already treated
patients» gastrointestinal cancer with stem cells
harvested from their own bone marrow and modified to convert a prodrug called ganciclovir.
Nepal police said Amit, now also wanted in Canada and in at least five Indian states
from where he
harvested a rich crop of kidneys and transplanted them to high - paying
patients, was tracked down on the basis of phone calls he made
from the hotel.
Regenexx involves
harvesting a
patient's cells
from bone marrow, growing more in a lab and then injecting the tissue - repairing cells into damaged joints or even lumbar discs.
The team of researchers
harvested hematopoietic stem cells
from three macaques prior to SHIV infection of all six animals in the study, treated the animals with anti-retroviral therapy (ART) to reduce viral load and mimic the situation in human HIV - infected
patients who are treated with ART, and then exposed the three monkeys
from which they had collected hematopoietic stem cells to a high dose of radiation.
The high doses of therapy lead to the destruction of a
patient's own marrow and immune system, which is then replaced by marrow
from a donor or
from peripheral blood stem cells that have been
harvested before therapy.
Blood and bone marrow stem cell transplantation involves the
harvesting of stem cells
from the bone marrow or the blood of a
patient or donor.
In the case of the eight
patients in the study, Collinge said that it's likely they acquired a-beta amyloid seeds
from the hormone
harvested from the deceased elderly who donated their organs for that purpose.
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Studies and the author's experience with her own arthritic dog have demonstrated increased mobility as well as a decrease in lameness in these
patients.23 The cells are
harvested from the animal's own adipose tissue and delivered back to the
patient via intravenous and / or intraarticular injections.
PRP is
harvested directly
from a small sample of the
patient's blood and is ready for use within 15 minutes.
Once the cells have multiplied several times, they are collected and given back to the
patient from whom they were
harvested.
The concept here is to
harvest blood
from the
patient and separate out the red and white blood cells leaving behind the plasma and platelets.
However welcome the recent announcement that a team of scientists based at Newcastle University, has grown a section of human liver using stem cells
from umbilical cords, rather than
from the more controversial source of embryonic stem cells, and whatever the eventual promise or potential of
harvesting organs for transplantation
from genetically modified pigs, the benefits of either of these two pioneering techniques to currently dying / suffering
patients, remain both elusive and distant.