Check the Score: Adult Stem Cells vs. Embryonic Stem Cells

Check the Score: Adult Stem Cells vs. Embryonic Stem Cells

Check the Score: Adult Stem Cells vs. Embryonic Stem Cells
Benefits in Human Patients
Adult Stem Cells
Embryonic Stem Cells
CANCERS:
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Brain Cancer
Retinoblastoma
Ovarian Cancer
Skin Cancer: Merkel Cell Carcinoma
Testicular Cancer
Tumors abdominal organs Lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia
Cancer of the lymph nodes:
Angioimmunoblastic Lymphadenopathy
Multiple Myeloma
Myelodysplasia
Breast Cancer
Neuroblastoma
Renal Cell Carcinoma
Various Solid Tumors
Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
POEMS syndrome
AUTO-IMMUNE DISEASES
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Multiple Sclerosis
Crohn'
s Disease
Scleromyxedema
Scleroderma
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Juvenile Arthritis
Systemic Lupus
Polychondritis
Sjogren'
s Syndrome
Behcet'
s Disease
Myasthenia
Autoimmune Cytopenia
Systemic vasculitis
Alopecia universalis
CARDIOVASCULAR
38. Heart damage
OCULAR
IMMUNODEFICIENCIES
40. X-Linked hyper
immunoglobuline-M
Syndrome
41. Severe Combined
Immunodeficiency
Syndrome
42. X-linked lymphoproliferative
syndrome
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NEURAL DEGENERATIVE
DISEASES/INJURIES
43. Parkinson’s disease
44. Spinal cord injury
45. Stroke damage
ANEMIAS/BLOOD CONDITIONS
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Sickle cell anemia
Sideroblastic anemia
Aplastic Anemia
Amegakaryocytic
Thrombocytopenia
Chronic Epstein-Barr
Infection
Fanconi'
s Anemia
Diamond Blackfan Anemia
Thalassemia Major
Red cell aplasia
Primary Amyloidosis
WOUNDS/INJURIES
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Limb gangrene
Surface wound healing
Jawbone replacement
Skull bone repair
OTHER METABOLIC DISORDERS
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Osteogenesis imperfecta
Sandhoff disease
Hurler’s syndrome
Krabbe Leukodystrophy
Osteopetrosis
Cerebral X-linked
adrenoleukodystrophy
39. Corneal regeneration
For references, see http://www.stemcellresearch.org/facts/asc-refs.pdf
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