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Stem cells 'able to reverse symtoms of multiple sclerosis'
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| Contributor | kal |
| Last Edited | kal Apr 24, 2009 06:34pm |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - Daily Telegraph |
| News Date | Saturday, April 25, 2009 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Some have been left free from seizures and better able to walk after the treatment.
Researchers said that the results suggest that the "very simple" injection of their own cells can stimulate the regrowth of tissue damaged by the progression of the disease.
The preliminary findings add to the growing evidence that stem cells could be used to treat the crippling neurological disease, which affects about 85,000 people in Britain.
Last year experts suggested that stem cell therapy could be a "cure" for MS within the next 15 years.
Patients' symptoms were still improving up to a year after the treatment, the new study shows.
One, a 50-year-old man, who had suffered more than 600 painful seizures in the three years before treatment has not had a single one since the infusion of his own cells.
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