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Cell therapy designed to treat inflammatory bowel disease – EurekAlert
The UPV/EHU’s NanoBioCel research group has for many years been developing systems enabling cells to be used as drugs. Cell therapy raises hopes for treating those diseases for which there are as yet no effective pharmacological solutions. Biomaterials, a lea…
IMAGE: From left to right, Edorta Santos, Rosa Hernández, Manoli Igartua and Ainhoa Gonzalez.
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Credit: Nuria González. UPV/EHU.
The results obtained are very encouraging and the researchers hope to be able to make headway in a multifunctional cell therapy system to treat inflammatory bowel disease. In fact, they have already commenced studies on ulcerative colitis in animal models.
“Perhaps the best known side is the use of stem cells in regenerative therapies,” said Rosa Hernánde…
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