Source: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Date: June 6, 2011
Summary:
CHAPEL HILL, NC — Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have shown in an animal study that transplantation of adult stem cells enriched with a bone-regenerating hormone can help mend bone fractures that are not healing properly.
The UNC study team led by Anna Spagnoli, MD, associate professor of pediatrics and biomedical engineering, demonstrated that stem cells manufactured with the regenerative hormone insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I) become bone cells and also help the cells within broken bones repair the fracture, thereby speeding the healing. The new findings were presented Sunday, June 5, 2011 at The Endocrine Society’s 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston, Mass.
