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Later in the future every patient who needs blood for surgery or cancer treatment can get as easy as attaching a piece of skin taken from his own body.
The team of scientists from Canada has made ?a major breakthrough in finding a way to change human skin directly into the bloodstream . In the results of research published in the journal Nature , noted that the discovery not only helps patients in critical condition to undergo surgery or cancer treatment , but patients with anemia.
This new method is considered more promising than modification techniques blood from embryonic stem cells. So far , the results of research on stem cells have not been encouraging as a number of failures to konverting stem cells ( stem cells) into mature cells for transplantation.
Unlike research conducted by a team of Kandana . According to Cynthia Dunbar, molecular experts from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, United States , the results of this research could change the paradigm of science in the creation of blood cells.
To avoid ethics regarding the use of embryonic stem cells, previous researchers have tried to use the new stem cells and adult human skin to blood. Unfortunately, these adult stem cells are limited. Besides that embryonic cells can be grafted in adult patients .
Scientists from Canada to overcome all these obstacles in seeking growth factor ( nuclei that regulate cell division and sustainability ) directly reprogram skin cells into blood cells .
This is not only cut the stem cell stage , but at the same time the creation of blood cells which can be used for adult patients.
Avoid the stage of stem cells also means that scientists can use large amounts of blood cells , because they no longer need to do the conversion is not effective stage of stem cells in other formations.
"We are currently considered to develop other types of cells derived from human skin cells ," said Mick Bhatia, principal investigator of the Director of Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute , Canada. The plan, clinical study will begin early next year.
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1 British stroke patients who received an injection of two million neural stem cells to repair brain cells that die. The first trial in the world that should help patients recover from stroke by stimulating the brain uses the mature nerve cells.

The method is considered controversial because it uses stem cells (stem cells ), which was developed in the laboratory are taken from among the candidates of the brain of human fetuses aged 12 weeks.

Stem cells are basic cells in the human body which can be transformed into various types of mature cells.

Laruence Dunn , neurosurgeon, successfully injected stem cells in patients suffering from stroke first because this method allowed embryonic stem cells.

" In this experiment , we seek security and the possibility of implantansi stem cells where it really needs a careful monitoring of patients," said Professor Keith Muir, a neurologist at the University of Glasgow , UK .

He added that most of the injected neural stem cells which automatically enters the nerve. As we know , the brain cells of patients with stroke die from lack of oxygen . The development of this therapy will be monitored for two years.

In tests on known mouse stem cells also result in repair processes in the body, for example to help the growth of blood vessels in the brain , as well as stimulate new brain stem cells to regenerate its own population .

Experiments on stem cells in mice were conducted for 10 years by researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine , USA . In this research, the experts were able to overcome the brain damage caused by stroke in mice injected with stem cells.

Within six weeks , the stem cells develop into mature nerve cells and prove the feasibility of the method in mammals.

Until next year , already 13 patients involved in this study will receive stem cell injections with increasing dose . " The dose should be increased to 20 million cells," said Muir.

All patients involved an average age of 60 and male. They have had ischemic stroke , caused by blockage of blood vessels in the brain , and are not effective in the treatment of therapy .
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During the relevant blood group becomes an important qualification to prevent rejection after a kidney transplant. However recent studies mentioned , the size of the kidney weight are also factors to consider. The kidney transplant recipients with a size smaller than the weight proportion of them are at higher risk on the occurrence of complications . The findings are generated in a study of 1,000 patients with kidney transplants . In a report published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, the scientists said the results of this study could be a reference for clinicians to improve the life expectancy of patients.

In their research, scientists continue to monitor the health status of patients five years after operation . By using calculations based on the body weight and the donor kidney recipients weight , it is known that the kidney is smaller than the body weight of the recipient at risk for complications . Complications include high blood pressure , renal scarring , and a 55 percent risk of graft failure two years after the operation. The majority of transplant recipients in this study received organs from dead donors.

Professor Jean- Paul Soulillou , lead researcher , said , from a clinical point of view, the results of this study is equivalent to the identification of markers (markers) to determine the appropriate type of network to reduce the risk of rejection. Suitability factors and compatibility between donor and recipient tissues is an important issue. " This information is needed for the thousands of transplant process to increase life expectancy , " he said.

Over the past 15 years, over 100 000 kidney transplants performed in the U.S. . Kidney transplantation is the best option for those with ESRD .
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Cardiologists America have managed to repair the aortic heart valve function without surgery. Previously pass valve replacement surgery is the only way out. Aortic heart valve disorder causes victims often feel shortness of breath, chest pain, fatigue and even fainting attacks. These disorders can be detected if the doctor listens to the heart with a stethoscope.

At a meeting of the American cardiologist in New Orleans, presented the procedure to replace the aortic valve without surgery by inserting a small tube through the arteries. This procedure should be approved so that the future could be an alternative treatment such as balonisasi overcome clogged arteries. Open heart surgery, which is currently the main treatment, covering the opening of the chest and the use of the heart-lung machine to support the patient's breathing and blood circulation when the heart defect was repaired.

Dr.Edward McNulty, a cardiologist at the University of California, who led this study to explain the operation of this procedure. The doctor inserts a catheter into an artery in the thigh or chest to insert an artificial heart valve. Then the balloon was inflated to replace the old heart valves. In a trial in elderly patients who have undergone surgery is no longer possible, this new procedure showed similar survival rates in patients undergoing surgery.

Dr. Michael Carwford, chairman of cardiology meeting said procedure without valve replacement surgery as a historic breakthrough that could dramatically alter the cardiac therapy. "At best the surgery, all patients want not," he said.
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New breakthrough in the field of stem cell teknlogi entered a new phase and give hope to millions of cardiac patients worldwide. The ahi in the United States claim to have succeeded in developing a body of human heart for the first time in the laboratory. As reported at the American College of Cardiology conference in New Orleans, United States, scientists from the University of Minnesota for Regenerative Medicine created a "new heart" use donor organs. This study uses the technique of stem cells is an important step towards the creation of other organ transplants, such as liver, lungs and kidneys.

ARTIFICAL HEART

Dr Doris Taylor, an expert from the University of Minnesota, is optimistic that this artificial heart function. "The heart will grow, and we hope they will show signs of beating within the next weeks. There are many barriers to heart that can generate fully functional. But my estimation, one day can be made throughout the transplantation of human organs, "he said. Meanwhile, patients who underwent cardiac transplantation should normally always take drugs to suppress the immune system in the rest of their lives. This technique can lead to a risk of heart transplant hypertension, kidney failure and diabetes.

If the new core can be made with stem cells derived from the patients themselves, the risk of rejection would be minimal. In 2007, a doctor in the UK tried to push a human heart valves using stem cells taken from the patient's bone marrow. Even a year later, the scientists were able to do in animals, the use of rats and pigs as experimental objects.

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In recent research, the University of Minnesota experts to create new organs using human cadaveric heart. Scientists stripped the cells that have died of a heart with a means of washing detergent strong. It is intended to allow the cantilever heart phantom made of collagen protein. Heart Ghost is then injected millions of stem cells that have been given nutrient.

Stem cells have been shown to know the structure of the collagen in the heart and have begun to develop into cardiac muscle cells. But so far has not started throbbing heart - but if the heart beats, they can be strong enough to pump blood.

The trip to the step of creating a working heart faces many obstacles. One of the most important is the need to get enough oxygen in a complex network of blood vessels body through. Not only that, scientists must also ensure that the heart cells beat in time.

"We walked far enough to create a heart transplant. We believe we have the opportunity to build on the transplantation of human organs other, "said Mr. Taylor.
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The use of stem cells ( stem cells) therapy for the treatment continues to grow rapidly. Used in medicine since the 1950s , stem cells can now be used as a sort of modern therapy offers hope of cure for various types of chronic diseases.

Stem cells is a type of cell in the body is very active and fracture does not yet have a specific function. Stem cells play a very important role because it can differentiate into various types of specialized cells , such as blood cells or muscle cells .

These stem cells can be developed from embryonic cells from embryos or adult cells infants, such as bone marrow, peripheral blood and umbilical cord of newborns. The treatment with stem cells is divided into two , namely, processing and transplantation . In the process , only the stem cells injected into the target organ or tissue in order to repair the damaged part .

The use of stem cells for therapy have been conducted in many countries, including China. In fact, the region has a population of over one billion , stem cell therapy has become one of the medical services at the hospital.

This is a little different from other countries that have not made ??the stem cell therapy as a medical service. In several countries , including Indonesia , treatment with the search for stem cell therapy is still limited scale . Regulations on stem cell therapy is very tight , given the factor of safety and ethical issues.

But the curtain countries bamboo treatment using stem cells are relatively easy to find. Although still controversial because considerations of efficiency and security, several large hospitals in China offers hope of cure for patients using stem cells.

One of the hospitals that provide stem cell therapy of cancer is modern hospital in Guangzhou ( MCHG ) . At the hospital, which is located in Tianhe District , stem cell therapy service was offered to patients over the past year .

As described MCHG deputy director , Chen Bing , stem cell therapy services in place to offer hope of a cure for certain types of chronic diseases such as diabetes , cirrhosis (hardening of the liver) , renal failure and degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease .

Chen said , patients who come to MCHG generally in poor condition . But not all patients can be served this therapy. Before starting the treatment , medical experts will conduct a complete and thorough examination , while giving advice to patients about the possibility of hope and healing. If conditions do not not allow the patient was recommended to undergo this treatment.

" We offer this treatment to patients to reduce the level of pain , " Chen said when met on the sidelines of the visit , physicians who are members of the Association of Indonesian Naturopathi Sunday (22/ 7) and Guangzhou.

One of stem cell specialists MCHG Zheng Xiang Lin claimed, the efficacy of treatment using stem cells as a hospital can achieve up to 70 percent .

" That is to say, the 100 patients who come there are 70 patients who received this treatment ," said a doctor who specializes in the treatment of cirrhosis of the field.

Zheng explained , the process of stem cell treatment involves several steps and does not take place in a short period of time. For curing the liver disease or cirrhosis , for example , the processing steps from the patient , continued examination by removal of cells from the bone marrow of the patient. After this is the separation and maintenance and breeding of stem cells outside the body , until then the injection of stem cells in the patient's body gradually .

For the proliferation of stem cells, MCHG working with the Stem Cell Research Center is located at the Hospital of the Liberation Army of the Chinese People (PLA ) 458 . Here , the patient's stem cells are developed to achieve a sufficient amount , and then selected before injected into the body of the patient .

" Stem cells cultured for 4-5 days until the number could reach millions ," he said .

The efficacy of therapy with stem cells, said Zheng, is highly dependent on several factors such as the patient's history and condition of the disease and the level of patient compliance during treatment . Typically, a patient faces the stem cell therapy two or three times to get the maximum , with the cost of injection therapy once up to 80,000 RMB ( Yuan ), about 130 million USD .

According to Zheng , the most disease treated with stem cell therapy in MCHG and satisfactory result type is cirrhosis , diabetes and kidney. "Many patients with renal insufficiency of Indonesia who seek treatment here , " he added.

He argues , the stem cell therapy is relatively safe and does not cause complications. In addition minimally invasive procedures , these therapies also not membutukan additional drugs . The risk of rejection of the body and a small cover is taken from his own body cells .

Beyond the controversy concerning the level of success in stem cell therapy is one of the foundations and the hope of medical treatment in the future. A growing body of research on stem cells that showed positive results for the healing of various types of diseases.

Same industry in the field of stem cell therapy in the world is increasing every year . Transparency Market Research , citing data from the United States , the market for stem cell treatment in the world reached $ 26.23 billion in 2011 and expected to increase to $ 119.51 billion in 2018.
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It has been demonstrated several types of fruits and vegetables to prevent the spread of cancer cells, one of which is the undefeated broccoli. Dense green vegetables contain antioxidants that help neutralize carcinogens compound.

Broccoli contains substances that stimulate the detoxification enzymes that help the body eliminate toxins naturally that cause cancer and dangerous.

Indole -3-carbinol , a substance found in broccoli , even very good for maintaining the health of women. Research shows that this substance reduces the risk of breast cancer and cancer of the cervix , as well as help to suppress the activity of cancer cells that already exist. Green is also responsible for kemprefol flavonoids , which protect the body against cancer of the ovary.

Excess broccoli not only because it is also a source of folic acid, a B vitamin that is necessary to establish and protect DNA, blood cell production , the formation of new cells and the synthesis of proteins . Folic acid is also associated with a reduced risk of cancer in adults.

There are several reasons why broccoli is a vegetable that is important for women's health . First, folic acid is a substance that is important for pregnant women to the development of the fetal nervous system and prevent defects of the brain and spinal cord.

Second, research shows , women are more prone to depression than men and depression is closely related to folic acid deficiency . The good news , the increase in folic effective in increasing serotonin levels and reduce symptoms of depression acid consumption .

Other additional bonus , the broccoli is a good source of fiber, vitamin C , K , E, and A as well as a variety of important minerals. In addition, as a natural diuretic , broccoli helps reduce the symptoms of bloating and fluid retention before menstruation .

For optimum flavor and nutrition, it is advisable to grow broccoli steamed so no more than five minutes or until bright green color slightly. Add the extra virgin olive oil , lemon and salt to taste.
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