Hair stem cells heal damaged nerves

View this message online Hello manoj kumar valluru, Last week a paper was published demonstrating ability of stem cells derived from the hair follicle to accelerate healing of damaged nerves.  This stem cell population appears to be mesenchymal-like in nature and has the advantage of homing to SDF-1 gradients, thus potentially allowing systemic administration and homing to site of injury. Jeff Turner's former company, Tissue Regeneration Therapeutics, was issued patent number #7,547,546 covering methods of extracting stem cells from Wharton's Jelly.  Darwin Prockup racked up another great patent, #7,547,545 covering the use of ANY cAMP activator for inducing differentiation of bone marrow stromal cells (mesenchymal stem cells) into neurons.     Progenitor cells from wharton's jelly of human umbilical cord     Patent Number: 7,547,546 Assignee | Inventor This patent covers methods of extracting an adherent mesenchymal-like stem cells from the Wharton's Jelly of the umbilical cord.  The extracted cells are negative for MHC and are termed by the inventors human umbilical cord perivascular (HUCPV) cells.  In the examples section the the cells are demonstrated to be capable of...[Read More] Ask a question OR leave your comments.     Hair Stem Cells for Injured Nerves Wednesday June 10th, 2009 @ 11:06:44 EST Sagamihara, Japan - Hair follicle stem cells have previously been demonstrated to possess various characteristics of other stem cells, including migration to SDF-1, thus potentially allowing intravenous injection.  Also this stem cell population has been proposed, [Read More] Ask a question OR leave your comments. Read more StemCellPatents.com News   Media Partnerships (NEW)   RECENTLY ADDED PATENTS     Directed in vitro differentiation of marrow stromal cells into neural cell progenitors (7,547,545) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Progenitor cells from wharton's jelly of human umbilical cord (7,547,546) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Methods for identifying factors for differentiating definitive endoderm (7,541,185) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Method of generating human retinal progenitors from embryonic stem cells (7,541,186) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Growth and differentiation of adult muscle stem cells with activators or inhibitors of Wnt signaling (7,541,183) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Angiogenically effective unit dose of FGF-2 and method of use (7,541,333) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Stem cells and their use in transplantation (7,537,756) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Method of expanding undifferentiated hemopoietic stem cells (7,534,609) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Pregnancy-induced oligodendrocyte precursor cell proliferation regulated by prolactin (7,534,765) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Methods of producing pancreatic hormones (7,534,608) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     View all 1428 Stem Cell Patents on StemCellPatents.com     LATEST NEWS     Hair Stem Cells for Injured Nerves June 10th     Pulmonary Fibrosis Treated by Mesenchymal Stem Cells June 8th     Free bone allograft prevents acute immune reaction May 26th     G-CSF Makes You Smarter May 16th     Mouse Liver Failure Treated by Human Cord Blood Stem Cells May 15th : 1 Comment     Read more news on StemCellPatents.com     LATEST JOBS POSTS     View the StemCellPatents.com Job Board   Thanks again for your help in supporting StemCellPatents.com. Media Partnerships (NEW) (BETA) ------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, click here. Delivered: Thursday June 18th, 2009 @ 14:55:21 EST