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Innovative Stem Cell Therapy to Repair the Gut

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VERY interesting study going on!

Dr. Jean Dodds' Pet Health Resource Blog | Innovative Stem Cell Therapy to Repair the Gut


"The ethical controversy regarding regenerative medicine (stem cell therapy) revolves around how the cells are curated. While I believe in ethical procurement, the controversy has escalated to the point of hampering this very important, lifesaving research. I support the conduct of medical trials and their potential. In my opinion, it is a “wholistic” approach for advancing conventional Western medicine.


The veterinary schools of Tufts University in Massachusetts and University of California (UC) at Davis are two institutions spearheading exciting research into regenerative medicine (i.e. stem cell therapy) to repair, limit or manage several inflammatory conditions in dogs, cats and horses. In particular, both schools are currently in the midst of two trials concerning inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) in dogs which are using stem cells. The UC Davis study has taken a more general approach and has sought dogs that have chronic, idiopathic diarrhea that traditional therapies have failed to control. The Tufts University study is more specific. It is looking into the treatment of IBD and concurrent protein-losing enteropathy in dogs. Both studies are using mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), which are traditionally found in the bone marrow but can also be found in umbilical cords, cord blood, peripheral blood, fallopian tube, and fetal liver and lung. UC Davis is using fat-derived (adipose) MSCs whereas Tufts has opted for umbilical cord cells. Neither study has released preliminary findings – but I would love to have preliminary reports"


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the study I quoted elsewhere , reported in the Utne Reader , winter 2015 , issue 189 , does cover
IBD and other chronic problems .

if you have the chance to read this you will really re-think antibiotic use , unless absolutely necessary.

in addition the report , citing U of Chicago and microbiome specialists , said that discovery of this vast , critical to life , life form's behaviour , will cause some serious thoughts to how surgery and cancer treatments will need to change for the future.

does it have to be as complicated as stem cell surgery ?

knowing the existing gut microbiome of the individual and matching the correct combinations , and providing the right environment for colonization AND/OR fecal re-florastation from a healthy donor , non-intrusive , apparently has been wildly successful.

Europe is so far ahead on these practices.


-- apparently there is a replay of the microbiome summit is anyone is interested
 
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