Successful Treatments using Adult Stem Cells

It is not within our remit here to go into every single successful therapeutic use of adult stem cells suffice it to say that there have been up to 73 different applications documented. Here are just a few examples to give you an idea of the types of applications that have been achieved using adult stem cells:

1. Muscular Dystrophy

Stem cells from bone marrow have been found to repair damaged muscle. The researchers involved in one such study on this application believe that the results are promising for the future use of adult stem cells in the treatment of neuromuscular diseases such as muscular dystrophy. “Muscular Dystrophy: Blood cells could build muscle in neuromuscular diseases”, Healtth and Medicine Week, December 1st 2003

2. Parkinson’s Disease

In a study published in the May 2003 edition of Nature Medicine researchers found that five people suffering from Parkinson’s disease who received injections of adult stem cells, experienced significant improvement in their ability to perform daily activities. Three of the patients regained their sense of taste and smell. Nature Medicine May 2003

3. Alzhimer’s Disease

A report in Nature Science Update stated that genetically-modified adult stem cells that were implanted into the brains of eight Alzhimer’s patients in an early human trial, appeared to slow the mental decline by half. According to researchers; “if these effects are borne out in larger, controlled trials, this could be a significant advance in therapies for Alzheimer’s disease.

4. Heart Damage

A study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology reported that adult stem cells taken from a patient’s own muscles repaired damage to the heart after a heart attack.

73 and counting...

Thus far adult stem cells have benefited human patients suffering from 73 different conditions:

Cancers

• Brain Cancer
• Retinoblastoma
• Ovarian Cancer
• Skin Cancer: Merkel Cell Carcinoma
• Testicular Cancer
• Tumors abdominal organs Lymphoma
• Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
• Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
• Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
• Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
• Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia
• Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia
• Cancer of the lymph nodes: Angioimmunoblastic Lymphadenopathy
• Multiple Myeloma
• Myelodysplasia
• Breast Cancer
• Neuroblastoma
• Renal Cell Carcinoma
• Various Solid Tumors
• Soft Tissue Sarcoma
• Ewing’s Sarcoma
• Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia
• Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
• POEMS syndrome
• Myelofibrosis

Auto-Immune Diseases

• Diabetes Type I (Juvenile)
• Systemic Lupus
• Sjogren’s Syndrome
• Myasthenia
• Autoimmune Cytopenia
• Scleromyxedema
• Scleroderma
• Crohn’s Disease
• Behcet’s Disease
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Juvenile Arthritis
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Polychondritis
• Systemic Vasculitis
• Alopecia Universalis
• Buerger’s Disease

Cardiovascular

• Acute Heart Damage
• Chronic Coronary Artery Disease

Ocular

• Corneal regeneration

Immunodeficiencies

• Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• X-linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome
• X-linked Hyper immunoglobulin M Syndrome

Neural Degenerative Diseases and Injuries

• Parkinson’s Disease
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Stroke Damage

Anemias and Other Blood Conditions

• Sickle Cell Anemia
• Sideroblastic Anemia
• Aplastic Anemia
• Red Cell Aplasia
• Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
• Thalassemia
• Primary Amyloidosis
• Diamond Blackfan Anemia
• Fanconi’s Anemia
• Chronic Epstein-Barr Infection

Wounds and Injuries

• Limb Gangrene
• Surface Wound Healing
• Jawbone Replacement
• Skull Bone Repair

Other Metabolic Disorders

• Hurler’s Syndrome
• Osteogenesis Imperfecta
• Krabbe Leukodystrophy
• Osteopetrosis
• Cerebral X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy

Liver Disease

• Chronic Liver Failure
• Liver Cirrhosis

Bladder Disease

• End-Stage Bladder Disease

 

 

LINKS

• Clinical trials using adult stem cells as documented by government clinical trials in the US