KNOW MORE ABOUT STEM CELLS
Stem cell therapy is going to revolutionize how we treat hearing loss, ATS, cancer, Parkinson’s and other deadly diseases. As stem cell treatments are taking place worldwide, there is a need to understand what they exactly mean. In terms of medical fraternity, stem cells are the life providers of human beings and their use in the right way will lead to new discoveries in the field of medical sciences in coming years. Stem Cell Industry has already become an important part of the medical industry because of its successfulness in treating many incurable diseases with a lot of positive results. Most of the people are familiar about Stem Cell research and how it helped with a windpipe transplant. But still most people do not understand how stem cells work in the body and what part they can play in future medicine, especially for senior citizens and those with disabilities.
Stem cells are very much different and unique from the other cells in the body but all the stem cells shares three general properties: they can divide and renew themselves over long periods of time, they are unspecialized (they can become any type of cell), they can cause specialized cells to occur.
There are two types of stem cells: embryonic and adult. But a big question which scientists are trying to understand is: why embryonic stem cells can reproduce themselves for a year or more and adult stem cells cannot and what are the natural factors the regulate stem cell proliferation.
When we say stem cells are unspecialized it means that a stem cell is not a specific type of tissue. It is not bone, muscle, or blood cell. It is a blank canvas of sorts. However, an unspecialized stem cell can give rise to specialized cells like heart muscle, blood cells, or nerve cells.
Stem cells can divide and renew themselves for long periods of time. Muscle, blood, and nerve cells do not normally replicate themselves. Stem cells can replicate themselves many times over. Replicating themselves repeatedly is called proliferation. So, a small number of stem cells that is allowed to proliferate for a few months can yield several million identical cells that have the same ability to proliferate.
Stem cells can give rise to specialized cells. A blank cell can become like the cells around it if it is in the bloodstream and attaches to a piece of body tissue. If you have an injury in a muscle, it becomes muscle tissue, a joint injury and stem cells could become cartilage, and so on in this way helps to fight against the diseases and helps the patients to recover their health without any side effects.
One major difference found between Embryonic and adult stem cells is that: adult stem cells are found in an adult human body and embryonic stem cells originate from a deceased fetus.
One must be glad to know that adult stem cells are found in nearly every part of the body: the brain, bone marrow, blood, blood vessels, skeletal muscle, skin, and liver. These cells are used for cures and treatments of various incurable diseases like: replacing the dopamine-producing cells in Parkinson’s patients, insulin producing cells for Type I diabetics, and repairing damaged heart muscle after a heart attack. Other possible treatments are for spinal cord injuries and arthritis.
Perhaps one of the most promising applications of stem cell therapy is in the generation of cells and tissues that could be used for cell-based therapy. Donated organs are used to replace ailing
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