Health News from Medical News Today: Stem Cells From Fat Used To Repair Skull Defects

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Stem Cells From Fat Used To Repair Skull Defects 1 Jun 2011, 5:00 pm Stem cells derived from abdominal fat-used along with a synthetic bone grafting material-are a potentially valuable new approach to repairing skull defects after brain surgery, according to a study in the June issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. Preliminary results suggest that adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs)-easily developed from a small sample of abdominal fat-are a useful material to fill large skull defects. The study was performed by Dr... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.