Sentences with phrase «transplanting cells harvested»

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Although such harvested cells could be cultured as say, liver cells for treating hepatitis or dopamine - producing cells for Parkinson's, the resulting transplants would likely be rejected by patients» immune systems.

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.

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.

Using stem cells harvested from human bone marrow, researchers transplanted cells into mice modeling ALS and already showing disease symptoms.

Typically too, there are not enough cells to harvest, and transplanted cells begin to die within a few years.

That happened right before my autologous stem cell transplant, after I'd done one more round of chemotherapy before my stem cells were harvested.

Bone marrow transplants for dogs is a relatively new procedure that involves the use of Leukophoresis machines — the same equipment used in human medicine — that are designed to harvest healthy stem cells from the peripheral blood.