Because leukemia and bone marrow transplant patients do rely on the bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells rebuild the body, but now researchers have found it more useful. McMaster University (McMaster University) stored in the ends of the bones found in the bone marrow stem cells, hematopoietic cells in the immune system's ability backbone than the existence of stem cells in the bone marrow is better.
Growth in the bone at the end of the elite
The study published in "Cell Stem Cell" (Cell Stem Cell) magazine. Writer who Mick Bhatia said that they do the same work, but the results they are different, they are like the crowd of elite athletes. They exist in the bone marrow in the end, because osteoblasts release chemicals that allow them to become better.
Bone marrow transplantation for certain cancers, immune system abnormalities and severe anemia patients is an option, but in fact is not always successful, say, a charitable donation of bone marrow hematopoietic cells may still be enough, or is donated bone marrow of patients with immune cells that the body of a foreign object, and then attack.
Bhatia said that they are more useful to identify more robust stem cells to enhance the effects of treatment, while trying to screen out immune cells, so that they attack patients. If they are to be successful, not only can increase the probability of success of bone marrow transplantation, but also allows more patients to have access to treatment.
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Successful research can reduce the side effects of treatment
Toronto is not involved in the study of the Princess Margaret Cancer Center Cell Therapy Program Director Armand Keating noted that the study interesting and important, but he was not sure how much can affect patients, there is currently only a quarter of patients transplantation of bone marrow cells taken directly from the bone, or the majority of white blood cells collected by the release of growth hormone from the stem cells into the blood, or from umbilical cord blood. And this by taking peripheral blood stem cell approach, prone to chronic diseases of the immune cells attack the patient, while the abdomen, skin and eyes are affected.
That is, this study if successful, can be reduced from the peripheral blood stem cells taken proportion opportunity complicated by other diseases can be reduced.
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