{"id":28157,"date":"2018-10-24T11:03:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T05:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28157"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:03:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T05:33:41","slug":"stem-cells-will-now-fight-parkinsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/stem-cells-will-now-fight-parkinsons\/","title":{"rendered":"Stem cells will now fight Parkinson\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stem cells will now fight Parkinson\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n

News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Recently, Japanese scientists announced the first human trial to treat Parkinson\u2019s disease by injecting stem cells into brain, building on an earlier trial on primates.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. The research team at Kyoto University plans to inject five million induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells, which have the potential to develop into any cell in the body, into a patient\u2019s brain.<\/li>\n
    2. The clinical test will consist seven participants aged between 50 and 69.<\/li>\n
    3. The university will monitor the conditions of the patients for two years after the operation.<\/li>\n
    4. They also confirmed that the iPS cells had not transformed into tumors during the two years after the implant.<\/li>\n
    5. The iPS cells from healthy donors will be developed into dopamine-producing brain cells, which are no longer present in people with Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/li>\n
    6. The clinical trials come after the researchers successfully used iPS cells to restore functioning brain cells in monkeys last year.<\/li>\n
    7. In 2014, Riken, a Japanese government-backed research institution, carried out the world\u2019s first surgery to implant iPS cells to treat a patient with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a common medical condition that can lead to blindness in older people.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      9.iPS cells:<\/u><\/p>\n