From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@xocolatl.com)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 19:41:27 MDT
19:00 16 April 03
NewScientist.com news service
Treatment with adult stem cells has cured mice suffering with a form of
multiple sclerosis, say Italian researchers. Almost a third of the mice
recovered completely from paralysis of their back legs, and the rest all
showed substantial improvement.
"It was amazing," says Angelo Vescovi, of the San Raffaele Hospital in
Milan. He has now begun experiments giving human adult stem cells to
monkeys with the nerve and brain damage seen in MS. But he warns that
success in mice does not guarantee success in humans: "I wouldn't want to
raise expectations."
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