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How Stem Cells Work
Stem Cells have the potential to treat a number of ailments, mainly due to their extremely flexible nature. They can divide and renew themselves easily to form the desired tissue or cell.
They have a tendency to migrate to the damaged or injured area of infection, unite with other tissues and restore the impaired organ. Stem Cells are vital for the repair and restoration of our body.
Benefits of Stem Cells
- Stem cells are non-toxic and devoid of side effects compared to its toxic drug counterparts
- The use of stem cells for therapeutic purposes can ensure lower treatment costs and promote longer lives
- They can divide and renew themselves at will and can thus replicate and proliferate to form the desired tissue.
- They are generally unspecialized but can give rise to specialized cells when subjected to the ambient conditions viz. suitable internal or external environment to which they are subjected.
- Plasticity i.e. ability of stem cells from one tissue to generate into cell types of completely different tissues.
- Homing i.e. ability of the stem cells be attracted to site of injury.
- Engraftment i.e. ability to unite with other tissues.
In the case of an acute heart failure because of a gun shot injury, the victim showed tremendous improvement due to active stem cell therapy being provided as a life saving measure.
The most promising treatment of diabetes involves replacement of the beta cells of the pancreas by stem cells derived from humans and cultured to differentiate into insulin positive cells.
