Whitechapel - Injecting your own stem cells into your heart. 2013-05-23T12:11:44-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher Injecting your own stem cells into your heart. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8056&Focus=231114#Comment_231114 2010-04-14T12:59:16-07:00 2013-05-23T12:11:44-07:00 V http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=765 Double bypass surgery, accompanied with an injection of the patient's own stem cells to facilitate heart muscle generation. So far their first patient is doing very well. The researchers plan ...
So far their first patient is doing very well.
The researchers plan to recruit more patients (here in Quebec) and enter the first phase of a study.

The process involved:

* Harvesting stem cells from bone marrow
* Sending the cells to Dr. Denis Claude Roy at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital to isolate the most immature stem cells.
* Injecting the stem cells directly into the heart muscle.
* Using cutting-edge imaging techniques to see whether the stem cells are working.


More here: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/04/13/heart-stem-cells.html]]> Injecting your own stem cells into your heart. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8056&Focus=231124#Comment_231124 2010-04-14T13:39:53-07:00 2013-05-23T12:11:44-07:00 JP Carpenter http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2485 Wow! That's given me some hope that when I start falling to bits they'll just be able to make the duff parts grow back. The person who wrote the first comment on there could do with growing a new ...
The person who wrote the first comment on there could do with growing a new fucking brain though...]]> Injecting your own stem cells into your heart. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8056&Focus=231137#Comment_231137 2010-04-14T14:10:40-07:00 2013-05-23T12:11:44-07:00 coffeemug http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6178 Can... can I put those into my liver? Interesting to see how effective these direct applications are already turning out to be. The irony being that they apparently need to use the cutting-edge ...
Also:
"I'm in near perfect shape," Tremblay said in French.
]]> Injecting your own stem cells into your heart. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8056&Focus=231148#Comment_231148 2010-04-14T14:41:19-07:00 2013-05-23T12:11:44-07:00 Zeebo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1651 There are actually quite a few clinical trials and promising results of similar procedures in recent years and one of the most promising areas for cell therapy is heart disease. Unfortunately, ...
Unfortunately, there are also a number of caveats to the procedure. Namely, a lot of things can affect the engraftment, proliferation, and differentiation potential of adult cells. Such things include age, kidney failure, and the beetus, which means a lot of patients may have less-than-optimal results. Naturally, this means people are trying the same thing with umbilical cord blood, which is probably about as close as you can get to Elizabeth Bathory.

The other interesting point that's often omitted in such things is that isolating the most immature stem cells almost certainly involved a machine that can accurately count and characterize millions of cells a second and separate them by their characteristics, even if only 1/1M is the correct cell type.]]> Injecting your own stem cells into your heart. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8056&Focus=231165#Comment_231165 2010-04-14T16:10:29-07:00 2013-05-23T12:11:44-07:00 V http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=765 @JonCarpenter - I almost went to go read the comments to see what you were referring to, and then I remembered that it is almost always a terrible idea to read the comments on news stories. Blargh ... @JonCarpenter - I almost went to go read the comments to see what you were referring to, and then I remembered that it is almost always a terrible idea to read the comments on news stories. Blargh to that.

@coffeemug - Why are you surprised by the French part? I assure you the patient almost certainly spoke French before the operation as well. Hee hee. :)
(It happened here in Montreal. This city is very bilingual, but the primary language is still French and most certainly it is the main language of this province.)

@Zeebo - Indeed. That's why the researchers involved are cautioning that it will be at least a couple years before they can determine if the procedure was a success even in the short term. Still an exciting start though. The necessary access to the machine is why they'd need to bring any participating subjects over to the specific facility.]]> Injecting your own stem cells into your heart. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8056&Focus=231170#Comment_231170 2010-04-14T16:28:45-07:00 2013-05-23T12:11:44-07:00 coffeemug http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6178 Well, not the french itself, but more that the writer apparently felt the need to mention that the guy was talking... IN FRENCH! Injecting your own stem cells into your heart. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8056&Focus=231171#Comment_231171 2010-04-14T16:34:49-07:00 2013-05-23T12:11:44-07:00 V http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=765 Ha! Fair enough. Injecting your own stem cells into your heart. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8056&Focus=231213#Comment_231213 2010-04-15T00:49:42-07:00 2013-05-23T12:11:44-07:00 Raid71 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8420 In May I'll undergo a stem cell transplant in my bone marrow (I'm just awaiting results as they can use my Stem cells or if I need a donor) Stem cells now offer a cure (fingers crossed) for a once ... Stem cells now offer a cure (fingers crossed) for a once incurable cancer.

More info about it here]]> Injecting your own stem cells into your heart. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8056&Focus=231253#Comment_231253 2010-04-15T07:35:26-07:00 2013-05-23T12:11:44-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2 Best of luck, Raid. Injecting your own stem cells into your heart. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8056&Focus=231326#Comment_231326 2010-04-15T09:45:18-07:00 2013-05-23T12:11:44-07:00 V http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=765 @Raid71 I hope your recovery is full and as easy as possible. Good luck. @Raid71 I hope your recovery is full and as easy as possible. Good luck.]]> Injecting your own stem cells into your heart. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8056&Focus=231337#Comment_231337 2010-04-15T10:14:44-07:00 2013-05-23T12:11:44-07:00 roadscum http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7712 @Raid71, good luck, hope it goes well. Injecting your own stem cells into your heart. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8056&Focus=231355#Comment_231355 2010-04-15T11:51:05-07:00 2013-05-23T12:11:44-07:00 Raid71 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8420 Thanks for the kind thoughts Injecting your own stem cells into your heart. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8056&Focus=231359#Comment_231359 2010-04-15T12:16:19-07:00 2013-05-23T12:11:44-07:00 Hayama http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2287 In 2007, I was to be a stem cell donor for my brother to try & save him from his cancer, after it was decided that the chemotherapy wasn't going to work. I was partway thru the drug treatment I ... Injecting your own stem cells into your heart. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8056&Focus=231471#Comment_231471 2010-04-15T18:46:31-07:00 2013-05-23T12:11:44-07:00 magician http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8636 What a fantastic concept. I feel like this is something I'd read in a John Darnielle blog post about black metal.