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Yale scientists repair injured spinal cord using patients’ own stem cells
Intravenous injection of bone marrow derived stem cells (MSCs) in patients with spinal cord injuries led to significant improvement in motor functions, researchers from Yale University and Japan report Feb. 18 in the Journal of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery.
Source: Yale News
21 Feb 2021
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Yale Scientists Repair Injured Spinal Cord Using Patients’ Own Stem Cells
For more than half of the patients, substantial improvements in key functions — such as ability to walk, or to use their hands — were observed within weeks of stem cell injection, the researchers report. No substantial side effects were reported.
Source: Yale News
21 Feb 2021
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Healing Neurological Damage After Stroke or Spinal Cord Injury: Axon Regeneration Could Be Key to Rebuilding Neural Connections
Treatment for stroke and other neurological damage could be improved by rebuilding neural connections via regeneration of axons.
5 Jul 2020
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Yale Stem Cell Center’s strategic bet on fundamental scientific research is paying off
When Haifan Lin launched the Yale Stem Cell Center a decade ago, he focused on fundamental research rather than research into particular diseases. That bet has paid off.
Source: Yale Medicine
8 Nov 2016
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State Awards $9.8 Million For Stem Cell Projects
Of the 19 grants, 13 grants totaling $7.25 million were awarded to Yale scientists.
Source: Hartford Courant
18 Jun 2012
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Hope sustains center’s research on paralysis
When Stephen G. Waxman, M.
1 Mar 2009
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Yale Researchers Receive $4.5 Million Grant to Study Spinal Cord Repair
Yale researchers Stephen G. Waxman, M.D. and Jeffery D. Kocsis have received a $4.5 million grant from the Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development Service to continue their internationally recognized research training program focused on restoration of function in spinal cord injury (SCI) and multiple sclerosis (MS).
25 Jun 2004
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Yale Interdisciplinary Collaboration To Forward Multiple Sclerosis Research
A new Collaborative Multiple Sclerosis Research Center Award is bringing together Yale researchers from a variety of disciplines and viewpoints to focus on MS research.
17 Mar 2004
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Second Patient with Multiple Sclerosis Undergoes Groundbreaking Surgery at Yale
A 29-year-old man with multiple sclerosis is the second patient to undergo transplantation surgery at Yale in an effort to repair myelin, the protective brain and spinal cord sheath that is destroyed by the disease, Yale researchers have reported.
13 Mar 2002
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Multiple sclerosis the target of experimental Schwann cell transplant
Physicians and researchers are hoping that cells from a nerve in a patient’s ankle will stem the degeneration of the nervous system caused by multiple sclerosis. In July a Yale team transplanted Schwann cells from the sural nerve into a patient’s brain in an effort to reverse the stripping away..
15 Sep 2001
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For 500 alumni and their guests, a return to New Haven
At this year’s reunion, alumni donned hard hats for a tour of the Congress Avenue Building and put on their thinking caps for a seminar on admissions that asked them to decide the fate of a hypothetical medical school applicant. More than 500 alumni and their guests attended reunion, which..
15 Sep 2001
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Groundbreaking Transplantation Surgery at Yale Attempts to Repair Central Nervous System in MS Patients
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have performed the first central nervous system transplantation to repair the myelin-forming cells in a woman with multiple sclerosis (MS).
23 Jul 2001
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Stem cell transplant shows promise for spinal cord repair
For the first time, Yale scientists have transplanted stem cells from an adult primate brain to repair the insulating sheath surrounding spinal cord axons in the same animal. These results, reported at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in November, raise hopes that patients’ own..
15 Apr 2001
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New labs, new approach bring hope for spinal cord injuries
Traditionally, physicians have believed that spinal cord injuries are irreversible. Paralysis will never go away and the best patients can hope for is to learn new ways of coping with the world.
15 Dec 1999
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Navigating the spinal cord
Originating in the brain, stretching down the back and extending its reach through the peripheral nerves to every part of the body from the toes to the fingertips, the spinal cord is the body's information highway. Despite its importance, it is smaller than one might expect: just 18 inches long..
15 Feb 1998