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What are umbilical cord tissue stem cells?
clinical trials Using mscs fOr treatment Of:
neUrOlOgic disOrders
Autism (Phase 2)
Cerebral palsy (Phase 2)
Hearing loss (acquired sensori-neural)
(Phase 2)
Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)
(Phase 1)
Spinal cord injury (Phase 2)
cardiOvascUlar
Critical Limb Ischemia (Phase 3)
Ischemic stroke (Phase 2 placenta)
(Phase 3)
Myocardial Infarction (Phase 3)
Cardiomyopathy (Phase 3)
aUtO-immUne disOrders
Crohn's Disease (Phase 3)
Diabetes, Type 1 (Phase 2)
Graft-versus-Host Disease (GvHD) (Phase 3)
Kidney plus stem cell transplant (Phase 2)
Systemic Lupus (SLE) (Phase 2)
Multiple Sclerosis (Phase 1)
Rheumatoid Arthritis (Phase 2)
Scleroderma (Phase 2)
Nerve cells Liver cells
Bone and
cartilage cells
Muscle
cells
mscs
Mesenchymal stem
cells found in Warton's
Jelly, bone marrow
asipose (fat) tissue and
tooth pulp.
Fat cells Skin cells
first used
clinical trials using mscs started in 1995, with more than 200 trials
currently underway.
Umbilical cord tissue
stem cells, also called
mesenchymal stem
cells (mscs) are able to
differentiate into certain
specialised cells.
mesenchymal stem cells can be
collected from
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