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Adult Stem Cells To Help Save Sight for Diabetes Sufferers

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

As reported in Science Daily [Feb. 14, 2013]

Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast are hoping to develop a novel approach that could save the sight of millions of diabetes sufferers by using adult stem cells.

Currently millions of diabetics worldwide are at risk of sight loss due to a condition called Diabetic Retinopathy. This is when high blood sugar causes the blood vessels in the eye to become blocked or to leak. Failed blood flow harms the retina and leads to vision impairment and if left untreated can lead to blindness.

The novel REDDSTAR study (Repair of Diabetic Damage by Stromal Cell Administration) involving researchers from Queen’s Centre for Vision and Vascular Science in the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, will see them isolating stem cells from donors, expanding them in a laboratory setting and re-delivering them to a patient where they help to repair the blood vessels in the eye. This is especially relevant to patients with diabetes were the vessels of the retina become damaged.

“Currently available treatments for diabetic retinopathy are not always satisfactory. They focus on end-stages of the disease, carry many side effects and fail to address the root causes of the condition. A novel, alternative therapeutic approach is to harness adult stem cells to promote regeneration of the damaged retinal blood vessels and thereby prevent and/or reverse retinopathy.”

“This new research project is one of several regenerative medicine approaches ongoing in the centre. The approach is quite simple: we plan to isolate a very defined population of stem cells and then deliver them to sites in the body that have been damaged by diabetes. In the case of some patients with diabetes, they may gain enormous benefit from stem cell-mediated repair of damaged blood vessels in their retina. This is the first step towards an exciting new therapy in an area where it is desperately needed.”

The research focuses on specific adult stem cells derived from bone-marrow.   

The project will develop ways to grow the bone-marrow-derived stem cells. They will be tested in several preclinical models of diabetic complications at centres in Belfast, Galway, Munich, Berlin and Porto before human trials take place in Denmark.

Further information on the Centre for Vision and Vascular Science at Queen’s is available online at:

http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/CentreforVisionandVascularScience/

The Greatness of Adult Stem Cells and How to Mobilize Stem Cells Naturally

Sunday, February 10th, 2013

If you have been hiding under a rock for 10 years, you may not have heard about adult stem cells.  You owe it to yourself to know what they are.  Adult stem cells are shaping the future of healthcare on a global scale.  Adult stem cells are not embryonic stem cells that come from an embryo.

Adult stem cells are the master cells of your body that are with you from the day you are born.

With 50 to 70 trillion cells in your body, cellular health is crucial to your overall well-being and good health. Adult stem cells working at optimal levels provide the platform for many cumulative health benefits.  With stimulation and under the right direction, your own adult stem cells have the power to self-renew and repair cells, maintain tissue and muscle throughout your entire life time.

In the last five years, incredible progress has been made.

In October 2012 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.” [Pluripotent means the stem cells have the potential to differentiate into specialized cells in the body].

The Nobel committee said Gurdon and Yamanaka had “revolutionized” science.

“The discoveries of Gurdon and Yamanaka have shown that specialized cells can turn back the developmental clock under certain circumstances,” the committee said. “These discoveries have also provided new tools for scientists around the world and led to remarkable progress in many areas of medicine.”

Adult stem cells offer regeneration to those who have mild to severe health challenges, injuries and disease through to those wanting to maintain their youth and good health well into their later years of life.

In addition to the full stem cell replacement therapies that are carried out under a medical setting, high quality stem cell supplements are now available.

The synergistic ingredients of Stem Cell Worx Intraoral Spray deliver the most powerful, pure and natural stem cell mobilizing nutrients available in the market.   In order for adult stem cells to be stimulated into the blood stream, with the blood being the principal carrier of nutrients and oxygen to cells, three key factors are required.  These are growth and immune factors that naturally stimulate G-CSF and promote the expression of CXCR4, along with cytokines.  Stem Cell Worx has all three factors in abundance.

Furthermore, this natural health supplement is sprayed under the tongue, providing an absorption rate of up to 95% of its nutrients compared to just a 10% to 20% absorption rate that pills and capsules provide.

Once in the bloodstream, adult stem cells have the ability to seek out and travel to the areas within the body where they are most needed to provide repair and renewal.

Stem Cell Worx Intraoral Spray provides many benefits, including:

– abundant energy
– super charges the immune system
– supports anti-inflammatory response
– builds muscle, burns fat and promotes natural weight loss
– improves mental clarity and focus
– provides rapid recovery after your exercise regime
– enhances repair and recovery after surgery, injury or illness.

Adult stem cell research and developments hold incredible promise in all arenas of human healing, overall health and life expectancy no matter what your age or your current state of health.

To learn more about Stem Cell Worx Intraoral Spray, a leading natural stem cell supplement that is manufactured in the U.S.A, visit the Stem Cell Worx website:   http://www.stemcellworx.com

The video below details how stem cell mobilization occurs.