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Ricin, one of the most strong poisons in the world, is used for transplantation of marrow to children ill with leukemia, - dangerous treatment which call the last hope of leukemic patients, informs gzt.ru.
Lack of donors in the Great Britain means, that more than 20 % of children with leukemia and other dangerous diseases cannot take advantage of transplantation. However the research carried out in London Great Ormond Street Hospital, confirms, that lethiferous poison ricin allows injecting “half corresponding” transplants as it kills the cells, which may be harmful for the patients.
Transplantation of “half corresponding” marrow is a surgery during which the marrow is taken from one of the parents. Only one of three such transplantations is successful, but according to the last research by mixing ricin with a part of donor marrow and blood of the patient chances of the child survival rise.
In Great Ormond Street Hospital marrow transplantation surgeries are carried out since 1979.