A Dose-escalation Safety Trial for Intrathecal Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

"There will be five treatment groups of up to five patients each. Groups 1, 2 and 4 will receive a single dose of cells. Groups 3 and 5 will receive 2 doses of cells separated by one month. Intrathecal injections into new subjects will be timed so that there is a minimum of one week between subject injections. The cell dose per group is as follows:~* Group 1: single intrathecal dose of 1 x 107 cells~* Group 2: single intrathecal dose of 5 x 107 cells~* Group 3: one intrathecal dose of 5 x 107 cells followed one month later by a second intrathecal dose of 5 x 107 cells~* Group 4: single intrathecal dose of 1 x 108 cells~* Group 5: one intrathecal dose of 1 x 108 cells followed one month later by a second intrathecal dose of 1 x 108 cells"