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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
> [log in to unmask]
> ----- 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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