Sentences with phrase «number of adult stem»

Unfortunately, the number of adult stem cells present in local areas of the body vary greatly in number and most researchers agree that there are simply not enough stem cells «at the ready» within brain tissue to heal itself in the same way the skin does after a cut.

The largest number of adult stem cells is present in the umbilical cord blood and in bone marrow and they have been used effectively for decades to treat cancers, blood and immune disorders.

A number of adult stem cell therapies already exist, particularly bone marrow transplants that are used to treat leukemia.

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Child stress, like adult stress, stems from a number of factors and can be best addressed by learning about what the problem is, what may be causing it, and then taking steps to help a child feel better and more relaxed.

Shah next plans to rationally combine the toxin - secreting stem cells with a number of different therapeutic stem cells developed by his team to further enhance their positive results in mouse models of glioblastoma, the most common brain tumor in human adults.

Umbilical cord blood, for example, generally contains insufficient numbers of stem cells for it to be used as a source of HSCs for transplantation into adult patients.

Removing Atoh1 - positive skin cells in adult mice led to a permanent reduction in Merkel cell numbers, showing that other stem cell populations are incapable of producing Merkel cells.

When comparing the numbers of cardiac stem cells in previously infected adult mice with uninfected ones, the researchers found significantly smaller numbers in the infected mice.

Pluripotency distinguishes embryonic stem cells from adult stem cells found in adults; while embryonic stem cells can generate all cell types in the body, adult stem cells are multipotent and can produce only a limited number of cell types.

Through the UCSD Clinical Cardiovascular Cell Therapy program, Dib and collaborating cardiology faculty plan to conduct clinical studies in a number of areas, including the effectiveness of adult stem cell transplant as a treatment for congestive heart failure; as a way to minimize heart damage after a heart attack; and in the formation of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) to increase blood flow to the heart for patients experiencing chest pain.

Our goals are to understand and overcome the limitations of regeneration in the mammalian retina, so that endogenous retinal cells are reprogrammed into an adult stem cell and generate adequate progenitor progeny to provide sufficient cell numbers and types for neuronal regeneration.

Adult stem cell therapy has been shown in a number of clinical trials to slow and, in some cases, even reverse heart deterioration in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD).

Based on positive results produced from a number of scientific clinical trials, coronary artery disease therapy using adult stem cells is a promising new method of treatment for coronary artery disease patients.

The fact that introduction of a small number of proteins into adult human cells could produce cells that are equivalent to embryo stem cells takes us into an entirely new era of stem cell biology.

«As the only engineer in the U.S. Senate,» Sununu said, «I've been proud to protect funding for the National Science Foundation from political manipulation and fully support funding for adult and amniotic stem cell research — which has already resulted in a number of treatments that have proven to be successful in patient trials.»

First, while adult stem cells (stem cells isolated from a variety of adult tissues) are limited in their lifespan, hESCs can be grown and expanded indefinitely, potentially creating an infinite number of hESCs from a single human embryo.

Regardless of the source, adult stem cells are multipotent - they can develop into a limited number of cell types.

Two key problems with this kind of transplant are that, 1) like with cord blood, the numbers of stem cells in drawn blood are low, and 2) because they are already mature, adult stem cells have a narrower chance of being a perfect match.