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[donald]

Iranian scientist have developed a new technique for treating patients with spinal cord injury. In this method the Schwann cells are taken from the back of the patients leg (below the knee) and grown in the lab. They are then injected into the site of the injury.
Researchers from the Spinal Cord Injury Treatment Center of the Tehran University of Medical Sciences have scientifically proven the efficacy of the new method through 30 operations on humans.

"The degree of recovery is 85 percent in patients with partial paralysis, and 15 percent in patients with full paralysis", the director of the spinal cord injury research group, Hushang Saberi, said at the ceremony held to announce the Iranian scientists.

Thirty patients were chosen to undergo the surgery, 40 percent of whom experienced at least partial recovery as far as sensation and physical movement, with 35 percent showing no change, and 25 percent still in the initial post-surgical stage, he explained.

The government will pay, either directly or through insurance, for the treatment of any patient with spinal cord injuries who can not afford it, he stated.

Such transplantations are being practiced in Ukraine, China, which uses fetal and adult stem cells, and Russia, which uses dipolar nerve cells, but these techniques are risky, he added.

http://www.curespina...l-cord-injuries

[Apparelyzed]

Donald,

Can you please quote the complete article and the url of the original article, as in this case it was:

http://www.tehrantim...p...t=5&Num=001

If you wish to promote your site, please just post your homepage url in your signature, rather than to individual copies of the articles you have posted on your site.

Thankyou

Simon.

[russ1]

Shouldn't worry about this as it seems it'll be that manic in the White House's next target, hasn't found anywhere new to bomb for a couple of years and it seems he's getting an itchy trigger finger again.

[Tinbasher]

russ1, on Feb 5 2007, 07:45 PM, said:

Shouldn't worry about this as it seems it'll be that manic in the White House's next target, hasn't found anywhere new to bomb for a couple of years and it seems he's getting an itchy trigger finger again.

OH god they have stem cells ! Another reason to bomb them.

T

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Tinbasher, on Feb 6 2007, 01:35 AM, said:

OH god they have stem cells ! Another reason to bomb them.
T

No, they use Schwann Cells, not Stem Cells:

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In this method the Schwann cells are taken from the back of the patients leg (below the knee) and grown in the lab. They are then injected into the site of the injury.

Simon

[donald]

Apparelyzed, on Feb 5 2007, 11:18 AM, said:

Donald,

Can you please quote the complete article and the url of the original article, as in this case it was:

http://www.tehrantim...p...t=5&Num=001

If you wish to promote your site, please just post your homepage url in your signature, rather than to individual copies of the articles you have posted on your site.

Thankyou

Simon.

sorry simon....i have no direct interest in promoting that site...or something like that

about schwann cells....already are clinical in US...see at http://www.proneuron.com but just for acutes