» Cell therapy http://www.tehrandoctors.net/w Tehran Doctors Directory Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:42:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Stem cell therapy ‘first’ in trial on arthritic knees http://www.tehrandoctors.net/w/stem-cell-therapy-first-in-trial-on-arthritic-knees/ http://www.tehrandoctors.net/w/stem-cell-therapy-first-in-trial-on-arthritic-knees/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:49 +0000 tehdoc http://www.tehrandoctors.net/w/?p=704 BBC Health News

A stem cell therapy for osteoarthritis is to be tested on patients in the UK for the first time.

A year-long trial, funded by Arthritis Research UK, will mix stem cells with cartilage cells in the lab and inject them back into damaged knee joints.

The new treatment could be an alternative to joint replacement surgery, experts hope.

Stem cell therapy is a less invasive

treatment than joint replacement


Scientists from Keele University will study up to 70 people from the end of this year.

The trial will be run at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry, Shropshire as part of a five-year research programme.

Three treatments are being tested in a randomised trial of patients with osteoarthritis of the knee.

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