Why It Isn't Just The "Lady Justice Statue" That's Blindfolded
The liberal media is just faint with breathless overexcitement today, oh, my: Human embryonic stem cells heal the hearts of rats.
Pardon my Noo Yawk bluntness, but-- big freakin' whoop.
Four years ago, this was already done, with human hearts, and by adult stem cells (ASCs):
Four out of a group of five seriously ill Brazilian heart-failure patients no longer needed a heart transplant after being treated with their own stem cells.
That study, published in Circulation Journal in 2003, reported regenerated damaged heart tissue from ASCs gleaned from patients' own bone marrow. ["Transendocardial, autologous bone marrow cell transplantation for severe, chronic ischemic heart failure." Perin EC, Dohmann HF, Borojevic R, et al. Circulation 2003 May 13;107(18):e9040-2]
Of that finding, Dr. Michael Rosen of Columbia University said, "This is the first approach where you have an opportunity to actually heal a heart."
(Ahem) The FIRST. Didn't see that plastered across the major media then, did we?
(Ahem Two) That's COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, of NEW YORK CITY, the IVY LEAGUE university.
One real adult stem cell heart success not enough? How about 16 additional ones published in 18 respected medical journals including Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Journal Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, Circulation, Stem Cells and The Lancet?
ACUTE HEART DAMAGE
- Joseph J et al., Safety and effectiveness of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor in mobilizing stem cells and improving cytokine profile in advanced chronic heart failure, American Journal of Cardiology 97, 681-684, 1 March 2006
- Blocklet D et al., Myocardial homing of nonmobilized peripheral-blood CD34+ cells after intracoronary injection, Stem Cells 24, 333-336, February 2006
- Janssens S et al., Autologous bone marrow-derived stem-cell transfer in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: double-blind, randomised controlled trial, Lancet 367, 113-121, 14 January 2006
- Patel AN et al., Surgical treatment for congestive heart failure with autologous adult stem cell transplantation: a prospective randomized study, Journal Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery 130, 1631-1638, December 2005, Updated: 4/11/2007
- Ince H et al., Preservation from left ventricular remodeling by front-integrated revascularization and stem cell liberation in evolving acute myocardial infarction by use of granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor (FIRSTLINE-AMI), Circulation 112, 3097-3106, 15 November 2005
- Ince H et al., Prevention of left ventricular remodeling with granulocyte colony-stimulating after acute myocardial infarction, Circulation 112, I-73-I-80, 30 August 2005
- Bartunek J et al., Intracoronary injection of CD133-positive enriched bone marrow progenitor cells promotes cardiac recovery after recent myocardial infarction, Circulation 112, I-178-I-183, 30 August 2005
- Dohmann HFR et al., Transendocardial autologous bone marrow mononuclear cell injection in ischemic heart failure, Circulation 112, 121-126, 26 July 2005
- Wollert KC et al., "Intracoronary autologous bone-marrow cell transfer after myocardial infarction: the BOOST randomised controlled clinical trial", Lancet 364, 141-148, 10 July 2004
- Britten MB et al., "Infarct remodeling after intracoronary progenitor cell treatment in patients with acute myocardial infarction"; Circulation 108, 2212-2218; Nov 2003
- Perin EC et al.; "Transendocardial, autologous bone marrow cell transplantation for severe, chronic ischemic heart failure"; Circulation 107, r75-r83; published online May 2003
- Stamm C et al.; "Autologous bone-marrow stem-cell transplantation for myocardial regeneration"; The Lancet 361, 45-46; 4 January 2003
- Tse H-F et al.; "Angiogenesis in ischaemic myocardium by intramyocardial autologous bone marrow mononuclear cell implantation"; The Lancet 361, 47-49; 4 January 2003
- Strauer BE et al.; "Repair of infarcted myocardium by autologous intracoronary mononuclear bone marrow cell transplantation in humans"; Circulation 106, 1913-1918; 8 October 2002
- Strauer BE et al.; "Myocardial regeneration after intracoronary transplantation of human autologous stem cells following acute myocardial infarction"; Dtsch Med Wochenschr 126, 932-938; Aug 24, 2001
- Menasche P et al. "Myoblast transplantation for heart failure." Lancet 357, 279-280; Jan 27, 2001
- Menasche P et al. ["Autologous skeletal myoblast transplantation for cardiac insufficiency. First clinical case."] [article in French] Arch Mal Coeur Vaiss 94(3), 180-182; March 2001
CHRONIC CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
- Strauer BE et al., Regeneration of human infarcted heart muscle by intracoronary autologous bone marrow cell transplantation in chronic coronary artery disease, Journal of the American College of Cardiology 46, 1651-1658, 1 November 2005
Heck, the European Society of Cardiology even has concluded that
Cardiac stem cells (CSC) are indeed able to proliferate giving rise to other stem cells (property named self-renewal); they can differentiate into all the cells composing the cardiac tissue.More and more, we Americans are being fed slop by not only the media but the medicos.
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