By SciTechDaily
A study from the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago discovered that directly injecting neonatal mesenchymal stem cells, sourced from heart tissue usually discarded during surgery, reduces intestinal inflammation and promotes wound healing in a mouse model of Crohn’s disease-like ileitis, an illness marked by chronic intestinal inflammation and progressive tissue damage.
The study, published in the journal Advanced Therapeutics, offers a promising new and alternative treatment approach that avoids the pitfalls of current Crohn’s disease medications, including diminishing effectiveness, severe side effects and increased risk of gastrointestinal dysfunction.