Potential Applications

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


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