Liver Transplant Alternative?

[Magnum]

I found a very interesting article in Time magazine regarding a potential alternative to liver transplantation. This is an exciting article that I will be glad to send to anyone who wants it. It is in JPEG format at about 420 KB. If you're interested, please leave your email address and I will send it...

Magnum

[mosy]

I am very intereted to receive this article.
Thank you in advance.

M. mirzabagi

[kishdlf]

Hello,

Yes could you please email me that article?

thanks,
Kesia

[Xhrles]

***@****  I'm interested. Please send me the article. Thanks in advance.

[willows]

Have not heard from you in a while, glad to see you.  I would very MUCH like to read the article...

***@****

Thanks!!
Willow

[CIRQDUSOLIEL]

Hi am very interested in what you found concerning this.  I will send you a message with a yahoo address.  Thanks for this.......

In Him,
Rick

[Bill1954]

To those responding to this thread, take note of Magnum's original post date: Nov 15, 2001.

[Myown]

I was just going to say the same thing. I'm sure I must have posted to an old post before too, I don't always read the date of the thread... It's sort of like talking to the chair in your living room that your friend was sitting in 7 years ago at your birthday and expecting him to answer.

[Xhrles]

Seeing how there is interest in the subject but this is an old post I suggest checking out cbsnews.com and looking up two articles. One is titled "the holy grail" amd the other is "grow your own body parts" They have links to the Regenerative research at Wake Forest U and the McGowan Institute of Regenerative medicine at U Pitt. there is also a link to the Tengion company which is a commercial startup which is growing bladders and arteries from stem cells that are separated from the patients own blood. WFU and UPITT are growing liver tissue and are researching cellular therapies to regenerate livers. Best to all

[merryBe]

yeah I've been skimming stem cell research too.

I guess the 64 dollar question is, for and HCV patient, whether you grow the stem cells from the liver itself, or from the bone marrow liver cells, or whereever.....
there's still the issue of how do you grow the cells minus the virus??
Since the virus has been shown to exist in the cell and blood, and to be capable of cell to cell transfer within the liver, they'd still be up against that.
Although, I did read something about UV light being used to kill virus. Won't work inside of us, but I suppose in vivo there may be solutions. Otherwise, we'd be getting just more infected tissue. However, that wouldn't rule out getting the perfect donor match and growing their healthy cells......I'm rambling sorry.