HomeVideosTreatmentProjectsFriends
Site Wide RSS Feed


Home > Blog > April 2011 > Chemical found which makes bone marrow repair skin

Chemical found which makes bone marrow repair skin

Are you or a loved one interested in receiving stem cell treatment? For free information, please fill out our treatment form or email me don@repairstemcells.org and just put TREATMENT in the subject box and the MEDICAL CONDITION in the message.

‘Chemical found which ‘makes bone marrow repair skin’

Healing skin graft
Skin grafts trigger repair by bone marrow cells

 

The chemical which summons stem cells from bone marrow to the site of a wound has been discovered by scientists in the UK and Japan.
 
The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, identified the distress signal – HMGB1.
The authors believe it can be used to put “a megaphone in the system” to improve the treatment of injuries such as burns and leg ulcers.
 
Another UK expert said the research had potential.
 
Bone marrow was thought to play a role in repairing damaged skin, but the exact process was unknown.
 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/guide/img/GreenMouseAdult.gif

 

Scientists at Osaka University and King’s College London gave mice bone marrow cells that glow green – which can be tracked while moving round the body…
 
Posted: 4/11/2011 9:39:21 AM by Don Margolis | with 0 comments
Filed under: Bone, Research, Stem Cells, Therapy, Treatment


Trackback URL: http://www.donrmargolis.com/trackback/37319379-29e2-469b-8e00-70cda7ccf0fc/Chemical-found-which-makes-bone-marrow-repair-skin.aspx?culture=en-US

Comments
Blog post currently doesn't have any comments.

Syndication

RSS
Bookmark this page to:Add to Twitter Add to Newsvine Add to MySpace Add to Link-a-Gogo Add to Multiply Add to MyAOL Add to Diigo Add to Yahoo Bookmarks Add to Yahoo MyWeb Add to Facebook Add to Mister Wong Add to Terchnorati Add to Segnalo Add to Digg Add to Google Bookmarks Add to Reddit Add to Faves Add to Blogmarks Add to StumbleUpon Add to Delicious