How Stem Cells Restore Immune Balance

Autoimmune diseases have been proposed as stem cell disorders. Here's a study actually looking at 16 patients. They saw by using umbilical cord derived mics that at one month after the treatment, these people had significant decrease in disease severity. And they also showed that these lupus patients had improved levels of disease markers, they improved their renal function, and clinically there seemed to be a shift more of a balance between the TH1 and TH2 sites of the immune system and increase in Treg cells. And the significant reduction in disease activity was achieved in all these 16 patients with no recurrence in three years. So this is a very successful study.