One of the most spectacular discoveries in recent years
Researchers at the Institute of Pathology "Victor Babes" have found a new type of cell that increases the chances of cellular regeneration. After almost 30 years without any discovery of new cells in the human body, the international medical world turns to Romania.
A class of cells as key: the regeneration
Images obtained by electron microscopy, indicate that these cells a few microns, are sprawling shape and are located in almost all tissues of the body. The Télocytes are involved in tissue regeneration, acting in concert with stem cells, which directs and coordinates. This can be particularly useful for the recovery of heart after a heart attack, but also for recovery skeletal muscle.
Normally, the cardiac tissue has a reduced capacity to recover after a stroke. In recent years, regenerative medicine aimed at correcting this problem by injecting stem cells into the heart. It is likely that these cells leading to the formation of a healthy and functional muscle tissue could lead to the development of new transplantation techniques. So the couple télocites stem cells and allow for greater capacity of engraftment and generation of a viable tissue.
The discovery of a huge potential untapped
The Academician Laurentiu M. Popescu, Director of the Institute of Pathology "Victor Babes" and President of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Romania stated that "The stem cells may have a better performance in the presence of telocites so that if we could control the telocites we would be able to modulate the activity of stem cells and consequently, improve treatment. But optimism about the future success of these treatments must be tempered, because such a discovery is the fruit of several years of research. Up to now, have telocytes been identified in the lung, pleura, pericardium, peritoneum, pancreas, gallbladder, uterus, placenta, heart muscle, but also in skeletal muscle. In the short term télocytes could be used to accelerate recovery after a myocardial infarction or after a muscle injury in athletes.
contacts:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtr0PrcIgXc
- http://www.telocytes.com
Source: Adevarul
Editor:
FLORI-Fabien, Attaché Academic and Scientific Cooperation, fabien.flori @ diplomatie.gouv.fr
-Adriana Gabriela Stoenescu, assistant and translator, adriana.stoenescu @ diplomatie.gouv.fr
Talhouk Alexander, project manager, alexandre.talhouk @ diplomatie.gouv .
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