AS Biology Issue Report Helpppp ?

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1. Mags says:

   October 22, 2010 at 2:43 am

   There is potential for the use of stem cells in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, you just didn’t look far enough. The other thing is that you are assuming that treatment is state of the art, which it isn’t.

   There are many labs in many institutions worldwide which are working to solve the problems. Many scientists hard at work to get past, through, around the problems to develop successful non-reverting or worse stem cell treatment. And this information is out there.

   If you are looking for success stories you will find that the PD treatments occurred within the last 4 years. It is difficult to find anything older than that…and for good reason. At best, the PD symptoms began to reappear. Now this is not to denigrate a few years with fewer symptoms. Where people could resume many former activities and live a life much closer to their pre-PD years. But you have to remember that they were not cured. They were placed into a “remission” state if you will.

   Of course Penny Thomas’s name appeared! She is significant!!! She was the first American to receive a PD stem cell treatment in China at Tiantan Puhua Stem Cell Center in China.
   That was over 3.5 years ago. You should take a look and listen to the videos to appreciate the change in her life. The problem is that she is approaching a threshold of sorts because in the other stem cell treated cases, the positive progress begins to reverse.

   This is a link to a video – watch the entire video and listen to what she says about the past few years:

   “TiantanPuhuaHospital’s groundbreaking treatment introduces ‘Human Retinal Pigment Epithelial cells’ (hRPE) to patients’ bodies causing them to naturally produce Dopamine, enhancing Dopamine levels in the brain. The Hospital’s use of hRPE cells means that patients do not have immunosuppressive reactions and therefore do not need to take additional drugs during the treatment. Specifically, the treatment includes a procedure that introduces hRPE cells into the region in the brain where there are damaged cells, along with a daily cocktail of medications that “fertilize” this area, helping the cells to survive.”

   Because much of the actual implantations are being done in China with some in Germany and some adult epithelial stem cell transplantation elsewhere, you may not find all of the documentation you want. It is available online in many cases but it is not free.

   Another thing is the Puhua who is actively advertising apparently does not take PD patients over 60 years of age. It is at this age or above that the majority of cases are diagnosed. I haven’t done further reading but I have some guesses about the reasons.

   Check this link to the Wu Medical Center to find some information about people who have been treated already. I don’t think you will find graphs but you could create a PD symptom table to show which symptoms were helped and which were not. You can simply go down the list of names. It is very important to note when they were diagnosed, how rapidly their symptoms progressed and so on.
   You could create comparative graphs and include their rating scales to demonstrate the progression up the PD scale (depending upon which scale you use) after DX and before treatment – then compare that to the reverse progression after treatment.

   The next link will give you the treatment data that they are releasing:

   Since you may not have the diagnostic tests, here is a link which will allow you to read and/or link with all of them. These are the referenced rating scales in any discussion of patient PD progression.

   Believe me, I wish there were more to provide about success stories in which the symptoms did not return, in which patients did not develop cancer but at this point the science is just too new. It is developing and will undergo modifications but it is nowhere near state-of-the art.

   It is probably too late to contact Tiantan Puhua now but if you had a few weeks ago, you might have been able to get some information. Process = no, but something.

   If you are disappointed, think about all the people who have the diseases listed at one link. People for whom there is no cure. Reversing the progression and having a few years back is a serious hope. Unaffordable for most. A permanent cure for the disease is a hope of all PwPs.

   I think that with enough searching you will find what you want but you’re going to have to Google rapidly and kiss a lot of lab rats.

   There is also a recent potential treatment being developed in cell treatment which uses recombinant transcript factors rather than genes to create pluripotent stem ce