Stem Cell Therapy: A New Start for Healthy Body

Stem Cell Therapy: A New Start for Healthy Body

There are a lot of controversy related with stem cells but did you know that there are actually have a lot of benefits for the health and medical fields. Nowadays, stem cells already have many applications for treating disease. Their magical potential to treat a lot of diseases in the future shows that nowadays the scientists are working so hard to discover more about stem cells function and how they can treat some of the more serious diseases affecting the world.

Stem Cells and Human Development

Stem cells have enormous potential in health and medical research. To fully understand this potential, scientists are now studying on how stem cells actually can transform, or differentiate, into the diverse range of specialised cells which that can make humans what they are today. Because some of diseases such as cancer or conditions such as birth defects are happened to occur because there got problems in the differentiation stage. Thus, a clear understanding of the development that happens in normal healthy cells will help scientists to treat the  expected developmental errors.

What is Stem Cell Therapy?

Stem cell therapy is a set of techniques that aim to replace cells damaged or destroyed by disease with healthy functioning ones. The techniques themselves are still relatively new but their applications and benefits are broad. Some of the diseases they can help include

Stem Cells Therapy Applications

Another potential application of stem cells is to form healthy cells and tissues for medical therapies. Currently, we are still using organ trasplant to fix the damage organ of the patients by using healthy organ donors. Sadly, the number of people awaiting a transplant is much higher than the number of available organs. Transplant waiting lists are enormous and many people die awaiting transplants. Stem cells offer a viable source of replacement cells to treat diseases and can potentially reduce the morbidity and mortality for those awaiting transplants. Some of the areas that stem cells can benefit include:

• Parkinson's disease
• Type I diabetes
• Arthritis
• Burn victims
• Cardiovascular diseases
• Cancer
  

Potential to Reverse Diseases

By directing stem cells to differentiate into specialised cell types, there is the exciting possibility to provide a renewable source of replacement cells for those suffering from diseases. The potential to reverse diseases is also not a foreign one:

1) Heart Attack

- Stem cell research into heart disease has shown some very promising results. The goal is to eventually replace all of the damaged heart tissue with healthy cells. Some of the initial research in laboratory animals such as mice has suggested that when adult stem cells derived from non-heart tissues are transplanted into a damaged heart, the cells were still able to give rise to healthy heart muscle cells. Directing stem cell differentiation is another important feature of research into heart disease. Some of the more recent studies have shown that it could be possible to guide the differentiation of embryonic stem cells into heart muscle cells.

2) Diabetes Type 1

- People who are diagnosed with type I diabetes have abnormal insulin regulation. The pancreatic cells that would normally produce insulin are destroyed by the patients own immune system. Research is now suggesting that it may be feasible to control stem cell differentiation so that stem cells are guided in the laboratory to generate specialised cells capable of producing insulin. The hope is that these cells could be transplanted into diabetics, removing their need for insulin injection.

3) Parkinson's Disease

- Parkinson's disease entails the destruction of cells producing a neurotransmitter called dopamine. A recent study with stem cells found that transplanted cells were able to function and release dopamine, relieving the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. There were, however, side effects reported that were thought to correlate with a hypersensitivity to dopamine or excessive dopamine levels. Despite the side effects, the results have still been impressive and further research should provide more insight into this potential therapy.

4) Genetic Defects

- Even more promising is the potential to address genetic defects that are present from birth by restoring function and health with the introduction of normal healthy cells that do not have these defects.

5) Burn Victims

- Burn victims tend to endure an enormous amount of pain from their wounds as well as frustration from the challenges of healing. Instead of donor tissues being donated, stem cells could be used to produce new and healthy tissues. This is essentially similar to therapies already being used, such as bone marrow transplants, where stem cells create different specialised blood cells.Scientists aim to locate and remove specific stem cells from a tissue and then trigger them to differentiate outside of the body before transplanting them back into the patient to replace damaged tissues.

6) Cancer

- Many people may have already heard of bone marrow transplants, which are a type of stem cell transplant that have been used for years now. This type of transplant is used for cancers such as leukaemia, where it allows the marrow to receive fresh and healthy cells, which then multiply and give rise to the different types of blood that are necessary for life. This procedure is often a life saving one for those whose marrow has been destroyed by chemotherapy and radiation. Current research is focused on overcoming the immunological challenges of cell rejection so that the success rate of a bone marrow transplant can be improved.

7) Infection Fighting (Covid-19)

- Infection can causing inflammation and organ damage to the body. For example those who are Covid-19 patients will suffered with pneumonia which is lung inflammation. The bone marrow stem cells used are known as mesenchymal stem cells. These particular stem cells were already known to be beneficial to supporting a person’s immune system and helping repair tissues that had been damaged. Mesenchymal stem cells are isolated in the bone marrow of adults and have previously shown promise in treating other health conditions. It will form healthy cell and tissue that will function properly and improve patients health.

8) Aging

- There is increasing evidence that the aging process can have adverse effects on stem cells. As stem cells age, their renewal ability deteriorates and their ability to differentiate into the various cell types is altered.Therefore, with the stem cell therapy the elderly's ability of regenerate and repair can be improved by application of advance stem cell technology. It can delay the aging process and treat aged diseases.

As a conclusion

Indeed, stem cell therapy is one of the latest technology to treat the diseases. Finally, there is a hope for everyone start their life for more quality and happy with a better health. Everyone wants to be healthy and happy. Why still in doubt? let's try stem cell therapy now and live longer!