- Tissue regeneration is the process of reconstructing damaged tissues and organs in the body to heal or replace them.
- The area of regenerative medicine is still new and researchers are looking at how they can use tissue regeneration for certain diseases.
- Researchers from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Spain found that vitamin B12 plays an important role in tissue regeneration.
- Scientists also reported vitamin B12 supplementation accelerated tissue repair in a model of ulcerative colitis.
These tissues and organs could have been injured through aging, trauma, disease, or congenital defects.
The area of regenerative medicine is still new and experimental.
Now researchers from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Spain report evidence suggesting that vitamin B12 plays an important role in cellular reprogramming and tissue regeneration.
The findings were recently published in the journal
Scientists tested their theory in a model of ulcerative colitis — a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) — showing that intestinal cells trying to repair themselves would benefit from vitamin B12 supplementation.
According to Dr. Manuel Serrano, a researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Spain during the time of the study — who has recently moved to Altos Labs in the United Kingdom — and co-lead author of this study, they decided to study the impact of vitamin B12 on cellular reprogramming and tissue regeneration after an unexpected finding when they analyzed how the microbial populations of the colon change during reprogramming.
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