Henry
I sent your question on to Diane Wyshak who can find anything.  I couldn't
find anything on CBSCR for PD.
Ray
Rayilyn Brown
Board Member AZNPF
Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Enrique Torres" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: stem cells-the science behind the rhetoric


> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of the use for cord stem cells with
> respect to treating PD?
> Which company has been the best to work with respect
> to storing the cells?
> Who is doing the research with respect to cord cells
> and PD ?
>
> Thanks
> Henry
>
>
> --- rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Joan, the only thing that might do with a little
>> updating is Dr. Levesque's
>> research.  I emailed him about a month ago to ask
>> him why Dennis Turner
>> never had that second treatment he wanted and what
>> happened to Phase II.
>> Six months ago he told me Phase II was stopped
>> because their labs weren't up
>> to FDA standards, but this time he said it was due
>> to lack of money.  He
>> didn't say anything about Turner.  I don't
>> understand this reluctance, but
>> even though Turner was not cured, surely a great
>> deal must have been learned
>> from his experience - like what doesn't work!!
>>
>> I would urge all people who are interested in the
>> issue of
>> fertilization/conception to read  Yvonne Perry's
>> RIGHT TO RECOVER
>>
>> Ray
>>
>> Rayilyn Brown
>> Board Member AZNPF
>> Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Joan Blessington Snyder"
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:16 PM
>> Subject: stem cells-the science behind the rhetoric
>>
>>
>> i thought that now might be a good time to dust the
>> ole paper and give it a
>> reprint and see if it still holds up...lemme know,
>> ok?
>>
>> Stem Cells, Cloning-the Science behind all of the
>> Rhetoric
>>
>>
>>
>> Out there on the political battlefield, sides have
>> been taken, round after
>> round has been fired, causalities sustained by both
>> sides, but in my view,
>> everything is obliterated by a shroud of smoke which
>> fills the air and makes
>> it almost impossible to think straight. The cause of
>> this smokescreen is
>> language: words that are as powerful as
>> flamethrowers and words that ignite
>> fierce reactions from both sides.
>>
>>
>>
>>  I am Joan Snyder. Many of you know me as a wife and
>> mom and a parishioner
>> at St. Edward Catholic Church in Chillicothe, IL.
>> Still others know me as a
>> 51 year old woman who has been diagnosed with
>> Parkinson's Disease for 13
>> years; an activist and a fundraiser. Those who know
>> me at all, know that for
>> years I have been walking a tightrope between the
>> controversial, moral and
>> ethical problems that have surrounded those with my
>> disease, Alzheimer's
>> (which killed my father), ALS, spinal chord injury,
>> heart disease, diabetes
>> and other devastating diseases that could possibly
>> be cured with the stem
>> cell research and the cloning going on now in the
>> science community.
>>
>>
>>
>> I am hoping that medical research has finally given
>> us an answer which will
>> ultimately allow me to feel both that I have not
>> compromised my Catholic
>> Pro-Life beliefs nor have I turned my back on the
>> many thousands of fellow
>> PWP's (People With Parkinson's) whom I have gotten
>> to know in person and on
>> the web-looking at them as if in a mirror, watching
>> their slow, downward
>> progression mimic mine.
>>
>>
>>
>>  Let us begin with definitions of some of the
>> scariest words out there:
>>
>> STEM CELLS-Undifferentiated, primitive cells with
>> the ability both to
>> multiply and to differentiate into specific kinds of
>> cells. Stem cells hold
>> the promise of allowing researchers to grow
>> specialized cells or tissue,
>> which could be used to treat injuries or disease.
>> There are different types
>> of stem cells and different ways of harvesting
>> (gathering these precious
>> cells). I will talk about these differences later.
>>
>>
>>
>> CLONING-Cloning is the creation of multiple copies
>> of a single molecule,
>> cell or virus. There are many types of cloning, most
>> of which are now
>> commonplace in science. Cloning has allowed
>> scientists to develop powerful
>> new drugs and to produce insulin and useful bacteria
>> in the lab. It also
>> allows researchers to track the origins of
>> biological weapons, catch
>> criminals and free innocent people and produce more
>> plants and animals to an
>> undernourished world population.
>>
>> REPRODUCTIVVE CLONING-is the use of cloning
>> technology to create a child. It
>> entails taking a fertilized egg and implanting it
>> into a woman's uterus. I
>> find the entire concept abhorrent, immoral and
>> completely unethical. I think
>> that this kind of research should be shut down and
>> it is something that
>> should be banned right away.
>>
>> THERAPEUTIC CLONING /SCNT (SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR
>> TRANSFER)-this involves
>> removing the contents of an UNFERTILIZED  egg cell,
>> replacing it with the
>> nucleus of a "somatic cell" (a skin, heart, or a
>> nerve cell for example) and
>> stimulating this cell to begin dividing. Once the
>> cell begins dividing, stem
>> cells can be extracted 5-6 days later and used for
>> research. SCNT does NOT
>> utilize a fertilized egg and it does NOT  produce an
>> embryo to be implanted
>> in a woman's womb therefore SCNT does NOT produce a
>> child.
>>
>> The words "stem cell" create a powerful, explosive
>> reaction in people on
>> both sides of the abortion issue. The fact is that
>> stem cells are in our own
>> blood, fat tissues, and perhaps many other parts of
>> our bodies. These are
>> adult stem cells which have already differentiated
>> themselves into the kind
>> of cell that they have become. It is thought that
>> with further research,
>> these may be part of a cure for disease.but no one
>> knows for sure.
>>
>> There are also stem cells that can be harvested from
>> umbilical cord blood
>> which is routinely discarded after a baby is born.
>> Around the nation, cord
>> blood banks are being set up to help doctors and
>> families donate their
>> umbilical cord for research.
>>
>> Dr. Michel Levesque has been doing work which uses
>> the patient's own neural
>> stem cells. He removed neural stem cells from the
>> patient's brain, cultured
>> them in the lab for months to produce several
>> million stem cells and then
>> implanted them into the part of the brain that is
>> affected by the lack of
>> dopamine producing cells. Thus far, his work holds
>> tremendous promise and
>> then there is the research being conducted right
>> here in Peoria by  Dr. Rick
>> Weber who is an Associate Professor of
>> Immunopharmacology and Microbiology
>> here at the University of Illinois College of
>> Medicine, who is working on
>> his project which involves activated leukacytes
>> utilizing the white blood
>> cells of the patient's own blood.
>>
>> The problem lies herein-at the very mention of the
>> words stem cells, people
>> tend to forget that there are many kinds of stem
>> cells out there that need
>> to be researched. Embryonic stem cells are the
>> flashpoint that both sides of
>> the abortion issue are reacting to when stem cells
>> are mentioned. These must
>> be harvested from the embryos which are aborted. I
>> cannot reconcile taking a
>>
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