July 5, 2011
By Cherie C. Binns RN BS MSCN
Several weeks ago, I was asked by Stuart to get some information on the current state of myelin repair therapies as they relate to Multiple Sclerosis. At the time, I was reading a book written by a friend from my college days about his nearly thirty years of study of aging of cells, regeneration of cells and the potential therapeutic effects that would come of developing a technology that would take a single cell, reprogram it and allow it to become nerve tissue or heart muscle. He could see great promise for the cure of many illnesses and, as a result, the prolongation of life with a far greater quality than is currently in existence. The book is The Immortal Cell by Michael D. West, PhD and is available on Amazon for those interested in the process of developing these technologies and making them work.
After my conversation with Stuart, I researched where we were as a society in stem cell therapies and success with treatment. I also searched the database at www.clinicaltrials.gov for “Multiple Sclerosis + stem cells” and was pleased to see a list of 26 clinical trials. However, as I looked closely at each trial, 5 were already closed with no data on the site, 2 were for scleroderma NOT multiple sclerosis, one was for Devic’s, NOT multiple sclerosis, and one was for NMO (neuromyelitis optica) NOT multiple sclerosis. Of the remaining 15 trials listed, one was in Jerusalem, one in Germany, one in Spain, two in China and two in Thailand. Of the 8 trials in the USA, two had not yet started recruiting, three were active and no longer recruiting and only three were currently accepting subjects into the trial.
Criteria for these trials are strict.
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