Our goal is to develop a cellular strategy for repairing the damage seen in children's myelin disease, Multiple Sclerosis and other neurological diseases.

 
Can Bone Marrow Transplantation Help Patients With Multiple Sclerosis? Can Bone Marrow Transplantation Help Patients With Multiple Sclerosis?
Maybe. That's what several teams of researchers in the US and Europe are now trying to determine.
posted by Charles Tupper Jr at 1:14 AM

 
The latest research on stem cell transplants and spinal cord injury Multiple sclerosis is a disease in which demyelination, or loss of myelin, is a cardinal feature and the cause of the neurological deficits. Researchers are asking if stem cell therapy that induces remyelination might slow or reverse the neurological problems of multiple sclerosis. Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta published the results of a study in Nature Medicine. These researchers had transplanted stem cells of oligodendrocytes (cells from the central nervous system) into dogs with a demyelinating disease similar to human multiple sclerosis. They observed large areas of repair of the demyelinated areas after the transplant. Much work remains to be done before these results can be translated into human therapies, but the potential for successful treatment for multiple sclerosis is exciting.
posted by Charles Tupper Jr at 1:06 AM