Using stem cells, a successful treatment brought hope to treat the world’s spinal cord injury.
According to IsnaJapanese scientists have used treatment with the help of stem cells to help patients, paralyzed and non-moving and non-moving.
Disability and paralysis are one of the most destructive medical conditions that are moving and deprived of independence.
The spinal cord injuries create important problems, because the spinal cord is responsible for the transfer of messages between the brain and body and has a limited ability to heal when damaged.
Millions of people around the world are currently fighting permanent paralysis. However, in Japan, a leading clinical test showed a spark of hope.
Japanese scientists showed that stem cell treatment could be a way to improve some of these patients.
The stem cell transplant brings hope for the disabled
A research team led by Professor Hideyuki Okanon at the University of Qiio, announced a great progress in the treatment of the spinal cord injury.
Four patients damaged a severe spinal cord, the induced stem cells (IPS) received transplantation of stem cells.
A patient, a person classified as a full paralysis, can now stand without help and began to walk.
Another patient, his arms and legs, the other two patients did not improve significantly.
These patients with all adult men received treatment within 14-28 days after injury.
Two million neurological stem cells were shot in the place of injury to restore lost nerve ties.
Although the results are different, they show an important step in the search for effective spinal cord injury treatment.
Promised Preliminary Outcomes
The court, which began in December 2021, focused on the following persecution for more than a year.
One of the patients with a scale of the spinal cord injury was restored to be a complete paralysis that allows you to go with d or without help.
Another patient moved from “to” A “to C” C “Could not stand alone, but he had sufficient control for an independent food and used the wheelchair.
Despite these promising results, two of these four patients did not improve significantly.
However, there were no serious side effects that provide confidence in the security of this treatment.
“These results are a great positive result, which is very interesting for the area,” he said.
However, these progress also has been researched to determine whether it is related to stem cell needles or to determine normal recovery.
The future of the spinal cord treatment
Japanese scientists plan to expand their research and pay attention to patients in the chronic phase of the number of neurological stem cells and the treatment of the spinal cord injury.
This stage occurs in the afternoon or years, when the nervous reconstruction is usually even harder.
“We were able to achieve good results in the first treatment of the spinal cord damage in the world using IPS cells,” Okano. There were difficult days that did not work with IPS cells, but the research has achieved the results worth security and valuation value.
It takes more extensive clinical tests to determine the full potential of stem cell treatment, this work is an important step in finding a suitable treatment for paralysis and disability.
Given that more than 15 million people live in the world’s spinal cord injuries, it is the ability to restore lost movements for affected people.
This pionering research was published in Nature magazine.
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