Japanese scientists said that the treatment of stem cells helped improve the kinetic function of two of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first clinical study of its kind.
There is currently no effective treatment for paralysis caused by serious spinal cord injuries, which affects more than 150,000 patients in Japan alone, with 5,000 new cases each year.
Researchers at the University of Qiu in Tokyo conduct their studies using the IPS – created by stimulating mature cells, which are already specialized, to the state of events.
It can then be required to pressure different types of cells, as Keio researchers use the IPS cells in the nervous trunk.
The university said on Friday that the degree of kinetic function of patients improved after the operation to plant more than two million cells derived from IPS in a spinal rope.
The university said that no serious negative event was noticed for all four cases after a year of monitoring.
The main goal of research was to study the integrity of cell injection.
