The medical team will review each individual's medical records to determine
whether cell therapy is appropriate for the condition at hand.
Not exact matches
Since patients (and mice) with Usher 1c also have balance problems caused by hair -
cell damage in the vestibular organs, the researchers also tested
whether gene
therapy restored balance.
Currently, Deng's laboratory is conducting additional preclinical studies using the human - derived stem
cells from Down syndrome patients and mouse models to determine
whether cellular and behavioral abnormalities can be improved with minocycline
therapy and other candidate drugs.
«The bottom line question,» says Christopher Austin, a neurogeneticist at Merck Research Laboratories in West Point, Pennsylvania, is
whether this kind of gene
therapy can stem the rate of brain
cell death.
Chitayat wonders
whether proliferation could proceed in unexpected ways, for example leading to tumors — a worry that cuts across many stem
cell therapies.
«By understanding how stress accelerates invasion in aggressive breast tumor
cells, this work will inform future studies into
whether beta - blockers could be a useful adjuvant
therapy in the treatment of some aggressive breast cancers.»
«It's not yet clear
whether or how GSK3 might be a target for future
therapies for B
cell - related diseases, but this research opens a lot of doors for further studies,» Rickert said.
«There was some skepticism about
whether a CD19 - directed
therapy would work in this disease, since nearly all of these patients» cancerous plasma
cells do not express CD19,» said the study's senior author, Edward Stadtmauer, MD, chief of Hematologic Malignancies and a professor of Hematology / Oncology in Penn's Abramson Cancer Center and Perelman School of Medicine.
The investigators also plan to look at
whether SIRT1
therapy could treat diseases already linked to aging, faulty blood stem
cells.
Joseph Poole, M.D., Ph.D., of the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, and colleagues studied
whether therapy with granulocyte - macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM - CSF), an agent that functions as a white blood
cell growth factor, would improve walking performance in patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease (a form of vascular disease in which there is partial or total blockage of an artery, usually one leading to a leg or arm).
In further studies, they plan to explore the role of autophagy in immune reactions toward other tumor
cell types, to determine
whether such
therapies might be effective in a broad range of cancers.
It is not known how long it will take for embryonic stem
cells to become a useful
therapy or
whether they will ever directly do so.
Patients who participate in testing experimental stem
cell therapies,
whether in regulated clinical trials or from clinics offering unproven
therapies, are pioneers.
In a previous study by the same group 78, autologous culture - expanded MSC were infused to breast cancer patients to investigate
whether MSC would enhance the engraftment of peripheral blood stem
cells after myeloablative
therapy.
The researchers tested
whether stromal tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and other immune
cells might predict responses to
therapy in a set of 30 HER2 - positive breast cancer tissues treated with TCHP (26 patients) or with TCH without pertuzumab (4 patients).
Although that study also is designed primarily at assessing the
therapy's safety, researchers are checking to see
whether the
cells restore any feeling or movement.
Cheresh said that the results show that the host response to the cancer —
whether or not it is making blood vessel - maturing
cells, for example — is critical in terms of susceptibility to
therapy.
The researchers are studying
whether short pulses of testosterone, enough to stimulate the breaks but not so much to stimulate the cancer, followed by radiation
therapy may cause even more DNA breaks to overwhelm and kill prostate cancer
cells.
Our medical team will then carefully review your medical history to determine
whether or not adult stem
cell therapy seems right for you.
If everything looks good, we will have a model of pathological blood vessel growth in hand, and we can get down to the business of seeing
whether the proposed
therapy helps shut down bad blood vessel growth and protects eye
cells.
Since the goal of huntingtin lowering
therapies like IONIS - HTTRx is to reduce the amount of the huntingtin protein in vulnerable brain
cells, in theory this gives us a great way to tell
whether the drug is doing what it's meant to do.
Another study is testing
whether unrelated donor stem
cell transplant can provide better long - term outcomes than traditional immunosuppressive
therapy (IST) for children with severe aplastic anemia.
She and her team now want to determine
whether the medial septum - to - hippocampus circuit can be targeted with
therapies to protect DG stem
cells and restore normal DG neurogenesis in cases where neurogenesis is abnormal.
The International Cellular Medicine Society, which Centeno helped establish to set professional guidelines for adult stem -
cell therapies and now counts 300 physicians in its ranks, is meeting this month with the FDA to discuss the issue of
whether a patient's own
cells classify as a regulated drug.
The really important questions are
whether this
therapy can be given safely; early in the disease course; and as second - line treatment, replacing an autologous stem
cell transplant.
They suggest that further research should be performed over a longer time period and in a greater number of animals to determine
whether these improvements are maintained, and look forward to further work utilizing membrane - spanning peptides for presentation of bioactive molecules for stem
cell therapy.
No one knows
whether stem
cell therapies will produce radically new treatments.
If you want to know more about Dr. Raj's innovative Stem
Cell Therapy treatment, and find out
whether you are a suitable candidate for this type of treatment, please give call us for more information.
Laser
therapy is an incredible tool when it comes to alleviating inflammation, assisting with tissue repair, mitigating pain and facilitating
cell growth,
whether post-surgical or for a chronic condition.
«With the recent explosion of stem
cell therapy, poorly controlled studies are resulting in contradictory results, making it unclear
whether transplantation is effective,» Dr. Olby says.