Brain stem cell stimulation by prolactin

View this message online Dear manoj kumar valluru, Last week a patent (#7,393,830) was issued to the Calgary, Canada based company Stem Cell Therapeutics TSX-V:SSS covering the use of prolactin for a) increasing number of neural stem cells; b) increasing neuron formation; and c) increasing neuron formation in the olfactory bulb. Given that this company has a track record of rapidly translating activators of endogenous stem cells into clinical products, it will be interesting to watch this story develop. We know that some people believe monocytes may have pluripotent activity. The endevours of people in this area were made easier by a patent (#7,393,628) issued last week covering a new way of harvesting monocytes from peripheral blood. Two interesting news items: the first, a television report of 2 patients with multiple sclerosis who recieved stem cell therapy (the non-myeloablative type) and reported positive effects; the second story, researchers in Houston identified immunogenic epitopes of a leukemia-associated antigen called PRAME, which may be useful in development of a vaccine for CML.   Prolactin induced increase in neural stem cell numbers     Patent Number: 7,393,830 Assignee | Inventor We at StemCellPatents.com believe that the future of stem cell therapy will involve optimization of current therapeutic approaches that are already in clinical trials.  For example, it is known that intravenous administration of mesenchymal stem cells can generate statistically significant improvement in heart...[Read More] Ask a question OR leave your comments.     Stem Cell Therapy of Multiple Sclerosis: Positive Case Reports Sunday July 6th, 2008 @ 17:12:02 EST [Watch the Video]  The use of stem cell therapy for multiple sclerosis has been previously reported in case reports, including from Dr. Simon Slavin's group in Israel.  In multiple sclerosis the rationale for why stem cell therapy would have beneficial effects derives from observations that...[Read More] Ask a question OR leave your comments. Read more StemCellPatents.com News     RECENTLY ADDED PATENTS     Method for enriching adherent monocyte populations (7,393,628) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Prolactin induced increase in neural stem cell numbers (7,393,830) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Optimization of immunomodulatory properties of genetic vaccines (7,390,619) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Self-contained adipose derived stem cell processing unit (7,390,484) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     CD8.alpha..sup.+lymphoid dendritic cell differentiated from human hematopoietic stem cell and a method for differentiation (7,390,658) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Composition and method for inducing and enhancing a telomerase reverse transcriptase-reactive cytotoxic T lymphocyte response (7,388,071) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Cellular therapy to heal vascular tissue (7,387,645) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Aligned scaffolds for improved myocardial regeneration (7,384,786) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Compositions and methods for detecting and treating motor neuron disorders (7,384,748) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Use of cytokines and mitogens to inhibit graft versus host disease (7,381,563) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     View all 1306 Stem Cell Patents on StemCellPatents.com     LATEST NEWS     Stem Cell Therapy of Multiple Sclerosis: Positive Case Reports 3 hours ago     Leukemia Vaccine 4 days ago     Go Cytori Go ! June 26th : 1 Comment     HGF-1 Double Blind Trial for Critical Limb Ischemia June 23rd     Clinical Evidence of Glioma Stem Cell June 22nd     Read more news on StemCellPatents.com     LATEST JOBS POSTS     Research Assistant UAE University     Patent Proscecution Technology Specialist or Scientific Advisor Crescent Strategic Resources     Attorney- Patent Litigation Associate Crescent Strategic Resources     View the StemCellPatents.com Job Board     Thanks again for your help in supporting StemCellPatents.com. We welcome your comments! Tell us here. ------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, click here. Delivered: Sunday July 6th, 2008 @ 20:40:21 EST