It’s reasonable to assume there’s something going on here that’s of interest.” “There does appear to have been an improvement both in her biochemical and in her functional capacity. “This is not a treatment we can rush out to other patients until we better understand the mechanism,” he says. This biochemical tends to be rapidly broken down in the body, so other unknown compounds may be having an effect, says Wilkins. In Lyme disease, one well known California clinic uses adipose derived stem cells (ADSC). In this blood stems cells are injected into a patient to promote blood growth in the marrow of bones.
When Hansmann’s team investigated samples of the stem cell liquid the girl received, they found high levels of several biochemicals that are thought to promote healing and regeneration, while suppressing inflammation, including prostaglandin E2. A common stem cell therapy used in non-experimental cancer treatment, is a bone marrow transplant. Lyme patients on the forum say the effect of these stem cells are miraculous. These cells are pluripotent which means they are basically the best of all the types of stem cells as they can produce all 220 cell types in the human body. The girl also received two standard medicines for her condition before the stem cell treatment, which may have contributed to her improvement, says Martin Wilkins at Imperial College London. Embryonic stem cell therapy involves extracting cells from an embryo and then injecting them into the patient. These procedures can be risky, particularly given her condition. The team behind the girl’s treatment hasn’t yet carried out imaging procedures to visualise the blood vessels in her lungs. These cells were previously tested as a way of repairing heart muscle damaged by heart attacks, but didn’t lead to lasting benefits and studies found no trace of the transplanted cells in the heart muscle.īut some recipients had short-term improvements, suggesting that the cells released signalling chemicals that promote healing, an idea supported by various animal studies. The girl’s treatment used mesenchymal stem cells, which are involved in the making and repairing of skeletal tissues. It is these biochemicals that seem to promote the healing of other tissues. In the girl’s case, the cells weren’t transplanted, but were grown in a dish, where they released biochemicals into the nutrient liquid they were bathed in.
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