Post by Lαrα on Jul 20, 2015 1:59:45 GMT -8
This could be potentially, an option for some relief from pain and certainly a consideration...It has been found that stem cell therapies have given relief of neuropathic pain in mice when using stem cell known as bone marrow stromal cells.
Although, in my ignorance, I did wonder how neuropathic pain can be measured in mice! 
Many people suffering from chronic pain caused by the nerve damage of type 2 diabetes, surgical amputation, chemotherapy and other conditions find current painkillers have little or only short term effect.
The breakthrough could provide advance cell-based therapies for chronic pain conditions, lower back pain and spinal cord injuries.
Professor Ru-Rong Ji in the Duke School of Medicine said: “This analgesic effect was amazing.
“Normally, if you give an analgesic, you see pain relief for a few hours, at most a few days.
“But with bone marrow stem cells, after a single injection we saw pain relief over four to five weeks.
“Based on these new results, we have the know-how and we can further engineer and improve the cells to maximise their beneficial effects.”
The study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation involved the delivery of the cells by a lumbar puncture, infusing them into the fluid that bathes the spinal cord.
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