Are you waiting for stem cells or something to improve hearing?

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shel90 said:
Never know with the views and attitude towards deafness by the medical field. I am just being bitchy cuz today, we had a team of specialists come to our school to observe and they commented saying that more of our students should have CIs. It is an individual choice!
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Is that really a necessary ? I mean, do they required to have CIs ? :ugh:
 
kokonut said:
Before you open you mouth again, adult stem cells are not just a few or limited but found in various areas in the human body....hence, the list of successful treatments of various conditions using adult stem cells. Unless you are denying that these things never happened? As a clarification when I say "adult stem cells" are the cells that come from your own body which is the safest and best bet to treatment a variety of conditions in a person's body.

We are talking about stem cell therapy as applied to deafness. You cannot take an adult stem cell from another area of the body and use it to regenerate tissue that it is not pre-programed to generate. :roll:Watch and listen to this video at the bottom of the webpage.
ASCTA


Let me ask you, how many places where adult stem cells are found in our own human body that has the potential ability to specifically regenerate a certain region in the body for a particular function? Are you saying that there are no "ear" adult stem cells? Here, let me help YOU for a change.

If a person who has missing or damaged cillia had the stem cells in their body to regenerate the damage, then the body would naturally repair the damage. That is what adult stem cells do. They regenerate specific types of tissue. A liver and a cillia are made up of different types of tissues. You cannot take an adult stem cell from your liver and use it to generate cillia tissue in the cochlea. You can only use it to regenerate liver tissue.

ISSCR :: Public : Beyond the Basics : Stem Cells and the Inner Ear

The concept is this. What's found in a mammalian mouse is a model of what's available or can be found in the human body.

Is there such a thing as a non-mammilian mouse?:giggle:
What about stem cells for the eye? The liver? etc..etc..? Does not exist? Or what?

Yeah, they exist. And they can be used in therapy for the eye or the liver specifically, not for the ear.Adult stem cells are much further along in their research and have shown higher treatment successes.

Adult stem cell therapy has not been used widely enough or over a long enough period of time to determine its overall success. The best that can be said is that there is potential. And that adult stem cell therapy is specific to those stem cells particular to that particular area of the body, not as a treatment for a disorder in another area of the body. Again, read what you post.http://www.stemcelldocs.org/uploads/Adult_vs.Embryonic.pdf
Adult Stem Cell Research

So, please, knock off with this "flaw in your logic" crapola the next time. The adult stem cell field is vast and new discoveries on what a human cell can do continues to grow. And that continues to be the good news.
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Who said it wasn't good news. I said your logic in using adult stem cells from the individual in treating deafness was flawed. And it is. But thank Gawd Obama opened the door for more in depth research to be done, huh?
 
Hear Again said:
coolspygirl (if I remember her username correctly) is a member of her school band and plays lead percussion.
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I played the autoharp in high school. It was the one instrument that I could play well. This was at MSSD.
 
deafskeptic said:
I played the autoharp in high school. It was the one instrument that I could play well. This was at MSSD.
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Awesome! I used to own an autoharp myself and I loved the way it sounded. When you refer to MSSD, do you mean the Maryland School for the Deaf? Sorry, I'm not familiar with that particular abbreviation.
 
Jiro said:
here ya go - link

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Nothing there about CI improving her quality of life. Just a post about improving communication opportunity. And mostly about the use of SSPs, not the CI.
 
jillio said:
Nothing there about CI improving her quality of life. Just a post about improving communication opportunity. And mostly about the use of SSPs, not the CI.
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yea ok have some Cherry Garcia :cool2:
 
SkullChick said:
Lucia, what's PABI?
Hear again, ignore them, I have no interest into getting stem cell either and I had moderate loss and I don't miss it at all and ci sound better than aided at moderate loss.

CI doesn't improve quality of life it simply provide sound that hearing aid can't provide to have option of hearing when we want to, its just bonus and it doesn't affect one's quality of life if we don't have CI
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Agreed here. It's possible that stem cell therapy for deafness may happen in my lifetime but it's unlikely. I'm not holding my breath for it.
 
Hear Again said:
Awesome! I used to own an autoharp myself and I loved the way it sounded. When you refer to MSSD, do you mean the Maryland School for the Deaf? Sorry, I'm not familiar with that particular abbreviation.
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Model Secondary School for the Deaf.
 
deafskeptic said:
Agreed here. It's possible that stem cell therapy for deafness may happen in my lifetime but it's unlikely. I'm not holding my breath for it.
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me either.
 
Depends on how long is YOUR lifetime is. For all we know it could be 20 years for a 60 year old or 40 years for a 40 year old or 60 years for a 20 year old.
 
jillio said:
Who said it wasn't good news. I said your logic in using adult stem cells from the individual in treating deafness was flawed. And it is.
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No. Nothing flawed about the idea of using one's own stem cells to treat his/her hearing loss. This is as if you are saying it cannot be done when it comes to a very specific type of treatment for a specific location in the body.

I've pointed this out clearly with several links previously on how this type of biotechnology is making advancements. It's you who are sadly not acknowledging that this has the potential to be done when it comes to restoring hearing loss someday.
 
To answer thread creator´s question "Are you waiting for stem cells or something to improve hearing?"

I can´t see anything why should I waiting for stem cells or whatever to restore my hearing loss? I prefer to positive my life over wait and hope for something.


All what I want to say is I accept my deafness long time ago and satisfy what I am.
 
kokonut said:
Depends on how long is YOUR lifetime is. For all we know it could be 20 years for a 60 year old or 40 years for a 40 year old or 60 years for a 20 year old.
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I'd rather take the treatment that's available today. There's no sense in waiting for something that will most likely never happen.
 
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