Penn Study Finds Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatments Mobilize Stem Cells

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine via ScienceDaily.com ^ | 2005-12-28 | NA

[neverdem]

Stem cell ping

[FairOpinion]

Very interesting!

Please also put me on your stem cell ping list.

( I am on your med-science ping list, that's how I found this article)

[appeal2]

My iron lung, its working again!

[FOG724]

Calling Michael Jackson...

[IronManBike]

...hyperbaric oxygen's role in mobilizing stem cells will provide a wide array of treatments for combating injury and disease...

IOW, the Pre-Noahic World.

[Bellflower]

Hyperbaric oxygen treatments is a one of my favorite subjects ping.

[Wonder Warthog]

Hmmmm---the immediate connection that springs to mind is how hyperbaric treatment would accelerate/enhance treatments that ADD stem cells to the blood (in addition to this "natural enhancement" effect).

[stocksthatgoup]

A number of NFL football teams have used hyperbaric units to speed recovery. It speeds healing and cuts recovery time.

[mdmathis6]

Yeah I wondered about that too...a lot of noxious bacteria don't like high oxygen levels under pressure.

[LukeL]

Kent Hovind fan are you?

But any way hyperbaric oxygen has been shown to prevent infections and save limbs that were on the verge of being amputated. I would like to see a study done on the rates of cancer and other disease in high elevation areas compared to low elevations areas.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Please add me to you list. Thank you

[sharpee]

I wonder how this technique would affect bone cancers like leukemia and multiple myeloma.

[Max in Utah]

I was thinking the same thing. My Dad died of multiple myeloma three years ago.

[EQAndyBuzz]

The Vancouver Canucks used it during their run to the Stanley Cup in 93-94. They probably needed more time in it as the NY Rangers beat them.

Sorry, felt like putting in a hockey reference today.

[dennisw]

My father got 20 hyperbaric treatments to clear up a nasty infection between two toes. It worked. He has low circulation to his legs. Hyperbaric oxygen is forced into the wound area helping the healing. Oxygen is life.

[dfwgator]

And of course, they would never fake the results of stem cell studies.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

It's likely that this treatment can help many conditions but it's under utilized.

[neverdem]

And of course, they would never fake the results of stem cell studies.

You'll find fraud in any human endeavor. In Science, it's far more the exception rather than the rule because it's so much more likely to be exposed. If it can't be reproduced, it "don't mean nothing."(bad grammar intended)

IMHO, the only interesting question with the South Korean fraud is why he thought he could get away with it, especially with such a high profile topic?

[neverdem]

I wonder how this technique would affect bone cancers like leukemia and multiple myeloma.

That's hard to say when you don't know why they developed the original malignancy. Was it nature, nurture or some combination of genetic predisposition and environmental insult?