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Daniel Opie

Stem Cells Poised To Grow Organs For Transplant - 1 views

  • Grekos showed the successful engraftment of stem cells into damaged organs and subsequent regeneration of tissue.
  • Dr. Grekos also highlighted several case studies to illustrate his team's success with Adult Stem Cells. According to their findings, cardiac disease patients experience an average increase of 21% in ejection rates as well as measurable improvements in congestive heart failure class status, some in as little as one month post-treatment
  • Regenocyte Therapeutic is currently using Adult Stem Cells Therapy to treat Congestive Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy, Peripheral Artery Disease, Coronary Artery Disease, Kidney Disease, Ischemic Heart Disease, Pulmonary diseases (COPD, Pulmonary Fibrosis, and Pulmonary Hypertension) and Early Senile Dementia. Patients can call 866-216-5710 or visit http://www.regenocyte.com for information or consultation.
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      I may want to contact this number for my research. 
  • Therapeutic, addressed physicians from around the world with a presentation on patients treated with pre-engineered Adult Stem Cells. In the presentation,
  • "This is the logical next step in harnessing the regenerative power of stem cells. This will be the next phase in turning science into medicine
  • PET scans confirm that Adult Stem Cells have the ability to engraft themselves into areas damaged by myocardial infarction (heart attacks) and turn into viable new heart muscle.
  • "Three months after treatment, cardiac nuclear scans of the areas treated reveal reversal of damage. We have been able to take patients off the transplant list, and we have been doing it consistently."
  • physicians at the Dominican Republic division of Regenocyte announced clinical results of a 46-year-old patient with pulmonary hypertension who was treated with Adult Stem Cells. His pulmonary artery mean pressure went from 41mmHg (severe pulmonary hypertension) to 24 mmHg (normal) in six months.
  • The patient's saturations are now consistently high and he no longer needs to be supplemented with oxygen continuously or considered for a lung transplant. Another patient was successfully treated for cardiac sequelae of Fabry's Disease, and is also no longer considered for heart transplant.
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    A clinical essay on the use of stem cells on regrowing certain organs and its cit-effects. Is it more dangerous to use stem cells research? Does the benefits out weigh the risks of the procedures? 
Daniel Opie

stemcellresearch.org - Fact Sheet: Adult Stem Cells (72) v. Embryonic Stem Cells (0) - 0 views

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    This is showing me that the type of stem cells that i have chosen to focus on are the only ones that have shown any results in curing these illnesses. Will science do a way with embryonic stem cells and gear their efforts toward adult stem cell research or continue to try and use embryonic stem cells?
Daniel Opie

Vatican to finance adult stem cell research - Health - Cloning and stem cells - msnbc.com - 0 views

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    Most people including religious persons oppose embryonic stem cell use but most if not all people are willing to experiment or allow adult stem cell use. It seems reasonable because adult stem cell research has been the only one that has proven to give effective results with out harming life. Will this prove to be the future of medicine and if so how soon will it be fully available and what price will the average person have to fork out for its use?
Daniel Opie

Stem Cell Research - 0 views

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    This is showing me the different types of stem cells and how each one can be used for a different purpose. Can we grow stem cells from previous existing stem cells?
Daniel Opie

Education > Stem Cell Research | ALL.org - 0 views

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    This explains to me the different ethics people have towards embryo-tic stem cell research. But is using adult stem cell research as controversial and disliked as embryo-tic stem cell use?
Daniel Opie

The Procedure to Obtain Adult Stem Cells for Stem Cell Therapy - 0 views

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    Can your body run out of stem cell? How does your body produce stem cells? What are the risks of doing a procedure like this and what is its success rate?
Daniel Opie

Pigs could grow human organs in stem cell breakthrough - Telegraph - 0 views

  • The researchers injected stem cells from rats into the embryos of mice that had been genetically altered so they could not produce their own organs, creating mice that had rat organs.
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      If they are able to do this with animals what about humans? Is this ethical and effective.
  • The scientists claim the rat stem cells grew in the niche left by the absent mouse pancreas and so almost any organ could be produced in this way.
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  • If replicated using human stem cells, the technique could produce a way of treating diabetic patients by providing a way of replacing their pancreas
  • In reality researchers are not allowed to create human embryos that lack the ability to grow organs and so they hope to do the same using pigs.
  • They have, however, already managed to produce pigs that were able to generate human blood by injecting blood stem cells from humans into pig foetuses. He said: "For ethical reasons we cannot make an organ deficient human embryo and use it for blastocyst complementation. "So to make use of this system to generate human organs, we must use this technique using blastocysts of livestock animals such as pigs instead
  • Blastocyst complementation across species had never been tested before, but we have now shown that it can work."
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    This is discussing about using other animals to grow organs inside of those other animals.
Daniel Opie

Recent Advances in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research | Stem Cell Action Coalition - 0 views

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    This is giving me more information on embryotic stem cell research and in its advancements.
Daniel Opie

extracting stem cells from other organism "such as animals" - Google Search - 0 views

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    It has human-animal stem cell research that i want to review.
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Stem Cell Of America | Breakthrough Stem Cell Treatment - 0 views

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    Showing me personal videos of people having results of the use of stem cells. 
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Scripps - 0 views

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    How much money is stem cell research making off donations and how do institutes get people to donate their money? Has their money helped the advancement in stem cell research technology?
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FAQs [Stem Cell Information] - 0 views

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    This resource may help me to know the main stream questions and might be able to answer many of my own. If i plan on being a surgeon some day will i be doing surgeries that require transplants from organs grown from stem cells?
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All Things Stem Cell - 0 views

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    Using embryotic stem cells to cure cancer and other diseases.
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Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research - 0 views

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    This is a book that will prove to be useful in its content because of the different areas it explores.
Daniel Opie

Lab-grown glands, eyes and brain parts | Mo Costandi | Science | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • Growing a complete, functioning brain is unfeasible, but there is real potential in growing functional neural tissue containing specific types of cells, for transplantation into the human brain.
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      It may not be possible to regrow a complete brain but we may not have to. If medical science was able they could potentially regrow certain cells and parts of the brain that have degenerated that could prove to cure certain diseases like Alzheimers.  
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    A study is being done in Japan that has regrown a pituitary gland that is fully funtional when it was transplanted into mice. How soon will it be before it is done on humans? Or is it already being done?
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