Potential new way to treat chronic kidney disease and heart failure

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital are using adult bone marrow stem cells as they investigate a completely new way of treating chronic kidney disease and heart failure in rats. Dr. Darren Yuen and Dr. Richard Gilbert were the first to show, in 2010, that enriched stem cells improved heart and kidney function in rats with both diseases. But they and other scientists wondered about the potential side effects of returning those cells to the body, such as forming tumours. In a paper published online in the journal Stem Cells, Drs...
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