Stem Cell Research at Cedars-Sinai Showing Protection Against Brain Tumors
Related News: Spinal / Nervous / BrainThis is a quicky .. and will look for more info on this .. but news is 'sneaking' out that researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute have discovered a new cytokine thats linked to neural stem cells derived from bone marrow.
Using this, the researchers are working to perfect a tool to track and kill malignant brain tumor cells and further, provide long-term protection to prevent the tumor from returning.
The study provides documentation showing that bone marrow derived stem cells possess the same tumor tracking capability of other neural stem cells.
The report also shows that the use of the cytokine interleukin-23 may have some potential as a gene-delivered therapy against glioma.
This is currently all based off of animal studies and the full details are published in the March 1, 2006 issue of Cancer Research.
Stem Cells Found To Kill Brain Tumor Cells
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Marrow-Derived Stem Cells Deliver New Cytokine to Kill Brain Tumor Cells
Posted on March 2, 2006 01:10 AM