How umbilical cord stem cells are helping life imitate myth

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients,  Dec, 2005  by Anthony G. Payne

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They are safe, because there is no graft versus host or rejection issues (as is the case with whole cord blood).

No immunosuppressant drugs are needed.

Best responders (so far): Cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, early stage progressive and secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, and Lou Gehrig's disease.

Poor responders (so far): Advanced multiple sclerosis and Lou Gehrig's disease, advanced COPD (emphysema), Charco Marie Tooth disease and diabetes type I (Insulin production and utilization).

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Diseases for which insufficient patient response data exists yet to determine efficacy of hUCSCT: Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, retinitis pigmentosa, and a host of other eye, circulatory, neurologic and other diseases and conditions.

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* Founded 2003. Staff of 2, now 7

* 12,000+ vol. medical & scientific library

* Developed USPTO Patent Pending protocols for pre- and post-hUCSC therapy

* Has accrued data and case history documentation on over 125 patients treated with hUCSCs (in Mexico)

* Asked by the White House to provide input on human umbilical cord stem cells to President Bush (October 2004)

* Is providing technical support & data analysis to those involved in doing the world's first use of gene transvected hUCSCs to treat the terminal neurologic condition Metachromatic Leukodystrophy

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