Revolutionary Procedure Could Turn the Page on Stem Cells
https://advancedregenmedinstitute.com/ - Doctors who enroll in stem cell therapy training courses through the Advanced Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) learn cutting-edge techniques for using autologous stem cells to treat orthopedic injuries. ARMI also train doctors to use PRP therapy for both aesthetic and orthopedic applications. That being said, ARMI’s training could look radically different in the future if a revolutionary procedure developed at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center ever makes it past clinical trials to enter the market.
https://advancedregenmedinstitute.com/ - Doctors who enroll in stem cell therapy training courses through the Advanced Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) learn cutting-edge techniques for using autologous stem cells to treat orthopedic injuries. ARMI also train doctors to use PRP therapy for both aesthetic and orthopedic applications. That being said, ARMI’s training could look radically different in the future if a revolutionary procedure developed at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center ever makes it past clinical trials to enter the market.
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like a small plastic chip. The biologic material is harvested from <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> patient being treated, <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>n processed and loaded<br />
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sends <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> biologic material through <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> chip and into <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> tissue underneath. The nanotransfecti<strong>on</strong> process takes less<br />
than a sec<strong>on</strong>d.<br />
The injected DNA or RNA material <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>n immediately goes to work to reprogram <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> stem cells it comes in c<strong>on</strong>tact with.<br />
Those stem cells will grow into whatever kind of tissue was programmed into <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>m by way of <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> DNA or RNA.<br />
Success in Laboratory Mice<br />
Researchers have yet to test <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> procedure <strong>on</strong> human subjects. However, <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>y have tested it <strong>on</strong> laboratory mice with<br />
remarkable success. A video produced by <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> researchers shows <strong>on</strong>e particular mouse with significant damage to <strong>on</strong>e of<br />
its legs. Scans showed that underneath <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> surface, <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>re was very little blood flow to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> injury site, thus inhibiting<br />
healing. After treatment, blood flow was restored and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> leg healed <strong>on</strong> its own without any pharmacological<br />
interventi<strong>on</strong>.<br />
In ano<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r experiment, researchers were able to reprogram skin cells to grow into brain cells. The new cells were<br />
transplanted into <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> brain of a laboratory mice with blocked middle cerebral arteries. Essentially, <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> mice had all<br />
suffered a stroke. Their brains were restored to normal functi<strong>on</strong> within a matter of weeks.<br />
To say this breakthrough is exciting does not truly c<strong>on</strong>vey <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> importance of what we’re talking about here. If this new<br />
reprogramming procedure proves effective in human patients, we could be <strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> verge of a set of treatments that<br />
would completely eliminate <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> need for pharmaceutical <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>rapies, surgeries, and o<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r procedures. Hopefully, we will<br />
be adding <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> technique to our core set of stem cell training courses at some point in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> future. Wouldn’t that be<br />
incredible?<br />
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Medical News Today – http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318841.php
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