A new application of stem cells

March 6, 2012

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Not long ago, one of the US agencies announced the successful completion of the first stage of the research methodology Recovery hearing   using stem cells Learned   Cord Blood . In addition to examining the effectiveness of this technique, the experts considered it from the point of view of safety.

Researcher Texas Medical School and the sponsor of the study, Dr. James Baumgartner said that in the future plans of the researchers use this technique in children between the ages of 1 month and a half years with a diagnosis of " acquired deafness ". In addition, experts are planning for another year to watch the results of the new therapy. According to Dr. Baumgartner, restore hearing in childhood it is necessary to 18 months, if the child still has a chance to get all the necessary conversational function, and its function is normal speech will develop.

Experimental group of children consisting of ten people, will be made blood tests , Held the speech and hearing tests MRI to study neural pathways Forwarders signals to the brain from the inner ear. After that, the method of infusion children will enter the necessary number of stem cells, the patients for a few hours will be observed in the hospital and then sent home. Little patients return to the hospital within a month, six months and a year for the completion of all necessary tests and tests again.

"This is a promising and exciting research, because this approach eliminates the need of surgical intervention for children with hearing loss," - says Dr. - "And more importantly, this is the first treatment that can offer complete recovery of hearing."

The situation commented Alexander Prikhodko, director of the Russian Bank of stem cells, "In recent years, an increasing number of more research aimed at the use of cord blood stem cells in therapy   neonkogematologicheskih diseases If this applies completely different idea about the mechanism of these cells. They are not used to replace or hematopoietic immune system of the patient, and to influence processes regeneration   in the body. This approach has been successfully used in type 1 diabetes . cerebral palsy, ischemia   lower limbs and other diseases. Today, many countries are conducting clinical trials, based on this method of treatment. The list of diseases, which can be used by cord blood stem cells as stimulators of regeneration is constantly growing, and a recent study from the Medical School of Texas - another proof.