Jan 30 2008
Stem cell transplants will benefit stroke victims
Jan 30: Two new studies have revealed that the transplantation of human Mesenchymal Stem Cell (hMSC) or Bone Marrow Stromal Cell (BMSCs) will help the patients to relieve from Stroke. As an attempt to study the impact of transplanted cells on damaged areas of the brain chemically tagged transplanted stem cells were used. The transplanted stem cells help in converting the damaged brain cells as therapeutically active one.
This research was carried out by Korean scientists and the labelled hMSC were transplanted into stroke models with cerebral artery occlusion. They were then tracked by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at an interval of two days, one week, two weeks, six weeks and ten weeks after transplantation.
While commenting on this the lead author of the research Jihwan Song, DPhil, of the Pochon CHA University College of Medicine said: “The cells began to migrate after the period of one or two weeks after the transplantation. On the tenth week cells were identified in the centre of the infected area. We expect that the extensive migration nature of stem cells and their performance will have a far reaching impact in designing innovative stroke therapies. ”
While the potential mechanisms for this recovery are ambiguous, among the possibilities are the microenvironment of the brain, early on following a stroke may mimic brain development. Following progress in the growth level might augment homing of BMSCs to the injured area and thereby induce cell proliferation.
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