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Mon, March 28, 2011
Treating Skeletal Muscle Injuries With Pluristem's PLacental eXpanded (PLX) Cells
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - March 28, 2011) - An Expert Briefing by William R. Prather RPh, MD, the Senior VP Corporate Development at Pluristem Therapeutics, Inc. (
Injuries to muscle are common. It has been reported that skeletal muscles are involved in up to 55% of all injuries sustained in sports.
In the United States, strains (tears) of the adductors, hip flexors, quadriceps, pectoral and hamstring muscles account for more than a million office visits to doctors every year. On the job, leg strains, sprains and tears are the second most common type of work-related injury in American adults, with approximately 100,000 cases reported annually to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In contrast to the unintentional muscle injury market, the intentional muscle injury market comprises those patients who, post-operatively, have potential weaknesses to the skeletal muscles. For example, it has been estimated that an incisional hernia will develop in approximately 10-15% of abdominal incisions. With more than 4 million abdominal surgeries performed in the United States every year, this translates into approximately 500,000 incisional hernias annually in the U.S. alone.
Recovery time for muscle injuries can range from a few days to several weeks depending on the muscle involved and the severity of the tear. There are however, other treatments that are currently undergoing testing that may significantly alter the way muscle injuries are treated.
One such treatment is being developed by Pluristem Therapeutics, the Israel-based biotechnology company developing cell therapies derived from the human placenta. The company recently announced the results of a pre-clinical animal study demonstrating that the local administration of PLX cells following muscle injury resulted in significant improvement in the recovery of muscle function when compared with the control group. This study suggests that Pluristem's PLX cells have the potential to treat various types of accidental and intentionally induced muscle injuries.
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