Stem Cell Cures

Given the immense medical potential discovered in stem cells, many therapies have high treatment hopes and expectations. So far, tests have proved that stem cell cures are the solution for life-claiming injuries and diseases. The mechanism on which the use of stem cell cures relies, comes from the differentiation of stem cells into absolutely any organ and tissue in the body. This means that if injected or placed in a damaged tissue, they will regenerate it without any threat for the patient’s health.

Although limited in number and extent, for the moment, stem cell cures do exist. Other than the performance of bone marrow transplants that is common and widely practiced, the rest of the stem cell treatments are experimental and very expensive. Scientists are now trying to develop stem cell cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s, cardiac failure, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, muscle damage and lots of others. This means that the stem cell cures can be used both for curative and regenerative therapies. How does tissue regeneration function? Well, in order to eliminate the appearance of a scar, stem cells have to be implanted in the wound where they will start to differentiate.

For the treatment of lymphoma and leukemia, the stem cell cures have been developed from umbilical cord blood. Chemotherapy used to destroy tumors will also kill the rapidly growing cells in the bone marrow. Hence, in the absence of a transplant, the patient’s recovery may not be possible. A matched donor has to be identified so that the patient can receive good stem cells for the stimulation of the blood creation process. Besides the basic bone marrow transplant, other stem cell cures represent only potential treatments.

Stem cell cures could become available in the treatment of brain damage after stroke episodes. Head injuries could thus become treatable if the brain stem cells are stimulated to divide and differentiate more quickly. Experiments on animals have also proved that stem cell cures may be the answer to all sorts of tumors. This would be a major difference from the majority of the cancer treatments that destroy the tumor without any possibility of preventing it in the first place.