Potential Application

Sources of stem cells	Umbilical cord
Types of stem cells	CordLife's Exclusive : Epithelial stem cells (EpSCs)	Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs)
Treatment resource for	Potential Wound / Soft Tissue Repair Surface ulcers (diabetic ulcers etc) Various type of burns other tissue trauma Organ Regeneration Liver Pancreas Gastrointestinal trace healing Eye Replacement of cornea	Potential Tissue Repair Myocardial infarction smooth muscle repair Osteoarthiritis (Cartilage repair and other orthopedic applications) Stroke Pulmonary fibrosis Haematopoietic engraftment support Shorten time of engraftment : increase success rate of transplant Immune Modulation Type 1 diabetes Crohn's disease eases the severity of Graft Vs. Host Disease in renal and hepatic transplants.

Today, more than 170 clinical trials¹ are ongoing worldwide to uncover the potential of MSCs. Thus far, encouraging results have been published; stem cell treatments have been proven safe and capable of repairing damage caused by stroke and heart disease. MSCs have also been used in combination with HSCs as a dual therapy to promote faster engraftment of HSCs and to reduce immune system complications².

¹ ClinicalTrials.gov. Accessed on 29 June 2011.
(http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=mesenchymal+stem+cells)

² Battiwalla M, Hematti P. 2010. Cytotherapy. 1 January 2010.

Worldwide researches on diseases treated with MSCs by various universities or institutions:

Diseases	Name of universities or research Institions
Stroke	University Hospital, Grenobe, France
Spinal Cord Injury	Cairo University, Egypt Chinese University of Hong Kong
Multiple Sclerosis	Spain-Carlos Health Institute University of Cambridge, U.K. Cleveland Clinic, U.S.
Amylotrophic Lateral Sclerosis	Hadassah Medical Organization, Israel
Parkinson's Disease	Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, India
Multiple System Atrophy	Yonsei University, South Korea
Liver Disease	Cytori Therapeutics, U.S.
Diabetic Foot Ulcer	Third Military Medical University, China Washington DC Veterans Medical Centre, U.S. Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Diabetes	FUzhou General Hospital, China Uppsala University, Sweden