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posted by janrinok on Saturday March 24 2018, @11:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the is-there-anything-that-stem-cells-cannot-do? dept.

Stem cell therapy may help reverse effects of premature menopause, restore fertility

Young women with premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) may be able to use their own bone marrow stem cells to rejuvenate their ovaries and avoid the effects of premature menopause, new research suggests. The preliminary results from the ongoing ROSE clinical trial will be presented Tuesday at ENDO 2018, the 100th annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, in Chicago, Ill.

"In the two participants who have completed the treatment to date, serum estrogen levels have increased as soon as 3 months after the injection of stem cells, and the effect has lasted for at least one year. Their menopausal symptoms have been alleviated, and six months after the injection of the stem cells into the ovaries, they have resumed menses," said senior author Ayman Al-Hendy, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Gynecology and Director of Translational Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The researchers plan to enroll 33 participants in their clinical trial. For the two patients who have undergone the procedure so far, they collected each woman's own mesenchymal stem cells from her posterior iliac crest bone marrow and used minimally invasive laparoscopy to inject the cells into one ovary, keeping the second, untreated, ovary as a control. The authors followed the patients closely with frequent blood work, imaging of the ovaries, menopausal symptom questionnaires, and safety studies.

Now that both women's estrogen levels have increased significantly and they have begun to menstruate, the research team looks forward to the possibility that they may again become fertile.

ENDO 2018. Because #IAmEndocrinology.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 24 2018, @06:50PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 24 2018, @06:50PM (#657626)

    I just mentioned this treatment to her. She prefers to be all-natural. She's about to turn 40, and thus is running out of steam. In 19 years, the all-natural method has gotten us 11 kids. We probably can't get past 14 without finding a treatment for her age. She won't even take drugs.

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday March 24 2018, @06:56PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Saturday March 24 2018, @06:56PM (#657631) Journal

    Get Wife #2 and get to work.

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