Stem Cells Put Woman's Rheumatoid Arthritis Into Remission
Saturday September 4, 2004
The journal abstract is technical, but the news remarkable. Researchers from Northwestern University in Chicago report in the August 2004 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism that a 52 year old woman with rheumatoid arthritis in 38 joints has successfully been treated with stem cells from a sibling.
The results: the woman's morning stiffness disappeared before she was released from the hospital; 9 months following transplantation of stem cells the woman's rheumatoid nodules disappeared; one year after the transplant the woman is said to be free of disease and not taking drugs to suppress her immune system. Prior to transplantation the woman was given several drugs to prevent graft-versus-host disease (rejection of the transplanted cells) or serious infection. There was no evidence of either complication. Read more about Stem Cell Research.
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Comments
What kind of stem cells,adult or embryonic? Why did the article not say?
Since the cells were taken from a sibling, they must have been adult cells.