can non-myeloablative allogenic BMTx witha therapeutic GVH permit a safe alternative?
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Yes. But check with your physician.
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none of that shit works, the fda has no reviewed any testomies you see on t.v., there is no such thing as a miracle wieght loss pill. sorry.
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My husband received a stem cell transplant for Lymphoma, not MS.  I can help with questions regarding the collection process, but I would imagine the transplant itself would vary, since the diseases vary.\n\nThe stem cell transplant worked with my husband, and he has been lymphoma-free for 6 years.  If no one else can give you the info you need, you can email me and I can help as much as possible.  But you can probably accompany your brother to his physician and get more valuable advice than here on Answers.  Good luck.
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Therapeutic cloning: \n(a.k.a. Somatic cell nuclear transfer or research cloning): \n\nThis starts with the same procedure as is used in adult DNA cloning. The resultant embryo would be allowed to grow for perhaps 14 days. It's stem cells would then be extracted and encouraged to grow into a piece of human tissue or a complete human organ for transplant. The end result would not be a human being; it would be a replacement organ, or piece of nerve tissue, or quantity of skin. The first successful therapeutic cloning was accomplished in 2001-NOV by Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech company in Worcester, MA.\n\nUnfortunately, although adult DNA cloning and therapeutic cloning are quite different procedures leading to very different goals, both terms contain the word "cloning." This causes a great deal of confusion among the public. Many transfer their disgust at the concept of creating cloned babies to therapeutic cloning whose goal is to create an organ to heal people. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), a pro-life senator has suggested the term "somatic cell nuclear transfer" to replace therapeutic cloning. \n\nWhat are its possible benefits?\n\nIf therapeutic cloning using embryos is successful, then perfectly matched, replacement organs could become freely available to sick and dying people. That would save countless numbers of lives, and increase the quality of life of countless others. Three possible examples of therapeutic cloning "might include the use of insulin-secreting cells for diabetes; nerve cells in stroke or Parkinson’s disease; or liver cells to repair a damaged organ." 4 There would probably also be side benefits resulting from the research. "Further advances in understanding of how organs regenerate would increase the range of possible treatments that could be considered." \n\nThis procedure would have a number of advantages, when compared to regular organ transplant donated by a second person: \nbulletThere would be presumably be no danger of rejection of the transplant because the organ's DNA would match the patient's DNA exactly. \nbulletFor transplants involving kidney (or theoretically any other organ that is duplicated in the body), another individual would not have to experience pain, inconvenience, and potentially shortened life span in order to donate the organ.\nbulletThe patient would not have to wait until an unrelated donor dies to obtain a transplant. A new organ could be grown for them as needed.\nbulletThe patient would not have to make-do with a replacement organ that is old and may have reduced functionality; a brand-new organ would be grown specifically for them.\nbulletThe procedure would save lives which would otherwise be lost waiting for a transplant that did not come in time.\nbulletThe potential exists to cure, or at least treat, certain diseases and disorders that cannot be effectively handled today
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Hi Andrea, Here is some comforting news but not to the specific question . I have advanced emphysema myself and will be searching for more information myself.Tulane University's Center for Gene Therapy has received a $9.5 million federal grant to develop treatments using adult stem cells for emphysema, cystic fibrosis and asbestos-related lung disease. \nThe AMA does not recognize this treatment for COPD/emphysema. The FDA does not approve nor disapprove, as it is a treatment. The FDA does not regulate treatments.\nLive Cell Therapy Treatments have been practiced in Europe for more than 50 years successfully and in Mexico for 20 years.
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Try:\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001177.htm#Treatment
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i'm not sure about studies proven but mt husband and son have both had it for various problems and it has cured them, really. it is not covered by medicare or blue cross here in canada so i guess that would mean no clinical studies have been proven, right. it was an oriental doctor that did them, one was male an one was female.
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I wish there were, but I have not heard of any.  The best news I have heard about Type I is the inhaled insulin trials.  As for transplants, frankly, they don't do them until the diabetic is so near death that not doing them would mean certain death.  The reason is that taking the anti-rejection drugs is more dangerous than being a well-controlled diabetic.\n\nI do want to warn you about something.  I was diagnosed as a Type I just before my fifth birthday and am now nearing my fourth decade.  I was totally uncontrolled as a child, teen, and young adult.  I was 24 before I finally got serious about it.  I have 0 complications at this point, low blood pressure, low cholesterol (I do not exercise regularly but I do eat well) and my A1Cs have been in the "non-diabetic" range for over 10 years (like 4.5 to 6).   My two, healthy children, were born at 6 lbs 9ozs and 6 lbs 12 ozs (I am female).\n\nDon't burden your son by telling him how great a cure will be.  I remember how often people told me that while I was growing up.  It made me feel like there was something wrong with me because I had diabetes and that diabetes would be the reason I could not accomplish things.  Fortunately, I "accidentally" found some great literature and accomplishments by Type Is.  There are lots of famous people with Type I who have accomplished many things.\n\nLife can be great with Type I.  Sucks your son got it, but it does not have him.  Show him how, once he makes taking care of himself a part of his life, it is an easy one if not one just like everyone elses (he should take pride in what he does to take care of himself).  Now that I just automatically check my glucose, determine my level of activity, and base my food choices on how I doing that day, it feels strange to me that non-diabetics don't do this and complain so bitterly about being told not to overeat.  I don't even need to check a books anymore, I know how carbs and fats affect my life off the top of my head.\n\nOf course, I want a cure.  But, I am just fine and dandy without one.  So, baring a cure, the best wish I can make for your son is that he focus on learning about the disease and how it functions in his body so that he can do all he wants to do in life.
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The whole Maxman group is bogus.  They are just selling an herbal supplement.  Now they admit that they won't provide miracles, but I want to emphasis that nothing they are providing will has really been tested to show any real results.  I would recommend a multi vitamin, healthy diet, plenty of exercise, and eliminate any smoking if you want that maximum blood flow to certain parts of your anatomy.
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A transplant allows you to have much higher doses of chemotherapy than usual, which may help to improve the chances of curing some types of cancer, leukaemia or lymphoma, or prolonging a remission. Remission is where there is no sign of the cancer.\nVery high doses of chemotherapy, sometimes with radiotherapy, are usually given over a few days. The high-dose treatment destroys the bone marrow and stem cells. So, after the high-dose treatment you will be given a drip (infusion) of either:\nyour own stem cells (autologous treatment) \nor stem cells from a donor (allogeneic transplant).\nBoth of these procedures are often called transplants. But, strictly speaking, only situations where stem cells are taken from someone else are actually transplants. So, throughout this section, the term high-dose treatment with stem cell support is used, rather than autologous treatment.\nHigh-dose treatment with stem cell support, and allogeneic transplants are different treatments, with different risks and possible side effects.\n\nThere are four main steps in the process of both high-dose treatment with stem cell support and allogeneic transplants. These are described briefly below and explained further throughout this section.\n\nThe first step is to reduce the leukaemia or cancer to as low a level as possible, using chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy. Ideally you should have no detectable cancer (this is known as being in remission) at the time of your high-dose treatment. This gives the best possible chance for the treament to work. However, it may also be done if there is only a small amount of cancer still present.\n\nThe second step is the collection of the stem cells from you or your donor. This is known as the harvest.\n\nThe third step is the high-dose treatment. The aim is to remove any remaining cancer cells from your body. You may be treated with chemotherapy alone. Sometimes radiotherapy is given as well. This intensive treatment will completely destroy all your normal bone marrow. This step is sometimes called the conditioning regimen and usually lasts only a few days. It can make you feel very ill and sick. You will be given anti-sickness (anti-emetic) drugs, which may also make you feel sleepy. These drugs are very effective, and can usually control feelings of sickness (nausea) and vomiting.\n\nThe fourth step is to give the stem cells to you through a drip. This is a bit like having a blood transfusion. It will be 2–4 weeks before the cells find their way through the bloodstream into the bone marrow and start to make new blood cells for you. You will need to be in hospital until the number of blood cells in your blood stream has gone back to a safe level.\nWhile your level of healthy blood cells is low, you will need to have antibiotics. This is because you will have very little resistance to infection. You may be given injections of growth factors (G-CSF) to help your bone marrow to make new blood cells more quickly. You will also need to have blood and platelet transfusions. You may be looked after in a room on your own to protect you from infection. During this time you will need constant medical and nursing support.
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This doesn't necessarily mean the MD  did anything wrong, and the minor blockages could potentially be problematic. It may not have been anything he could fix. There may be enough blood flow from the new grafts to give blood flow to the areas with the blockages. Im sure they have been advised of diet and lifestyle changes. Hopefully they are involved in a cardiac rehab program. My advise is to be as healthy as possible, now that they have new grafts to take care of, because it does mean that they wont clot off in the future. Good luck to you and your family.
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Yep, just check their site, listed here:\nhttp://www.byetta.com/patient/byetta_safety_information_113.jsp?reqNavId=1.4
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http://www.pharma.ca.novartis.com/downloads/en/products/neoral_patient_e.pdf#search='cyclosporine%20affect%20immune%20system'\n\n\nit gives all the information you need. good luck
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Wow, what a good question. I'd think that there would be minute amounts of the donors DNA in the recipients blood stream, but it probably wouldn't be detecable. I'm guessing.\n\nIf it were true that all the donor cells die and are replaced by new cells, then it wouldn't be necessary for the recipient to take immunosuppressents  for the rest of their life. They wouldn't have to worry about the body rejecting the new heart after a a few years, but they do.\n\nNo, the new DNA won't proliferate, but there will most likely be trace amounts of it in their body for years to come.
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At this point stem cell research is still very much in the testing stage when it comes to curing diabetics. I would strongly advise you away from this option for right now. There are some child friendly ways to administer insulin, and any pediatric endocrinologist would be more then happy to help you find ways to make sure your son can get used to being diabetic. \n\nBut like I said before - the cure for diabetes is not here yet. If the people behind these sites are claiming a cure, they're lying. What they're more then likely looking for are test subjects. Which is dangerous and best left to diabetic patients who can make that choice for themselves - not a 6 year old boy.
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Hello again Knower,\n\nHere's another quote from http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/health.asp\n\n"Adult stem cells, such as blood-forming stem cells in bone marrow (called hematopoietic stem cells, or HSCs), are currently the only type of stem cell commonly used to treat human diseases. Doctors have been transferring HSCs in bone marrow transplants for over 40 years. More advanced techniques of collecting, or "harvesting," HSCs are now used in order to treat leukemia, lymphoma and several inherited blood disorders.\n\nThe clinical potential of adult stem cells has also been demonstrated in the treatment of other human diseases that include diabetes and advanced kidney cancer. However, these newer uses have involved studies with a very limited number of patients."\n\n[page last updated Friday, October 6, 2006)\n\nHowever, clinical trials are now going on..\nMany clinical trials are reported at http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/\n\nI typed..."stem cell"....in the search box and came up with over\n500 recruiting, going on, or finished..\n[use quotes to force searching stem cell as a phrase]
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It is very treatable. Try lotimin AF. No one who is not immune compromised will keep it forever