StemCell Therapy

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1. What are Stem Cells?

Stem cells is a kind of self-renewing cells, which are immature and do not fully differentiate, and have the potential function of regenerating all kinds of tissues and organs. So they are called "universal cells".

According to the different original sources, stem cells can be divided into embryonic stem cells, somatic stem cells, hematopoietic stem cells, neural stem cells and muscle stem cells etc. According to the development potential, stem cells can be divided into totipotent stem cells, pluripotent stem cells and unipotent stem cells.

2. The Characteristics and Advantages of Stem Cells

a. Stem cells have the strong abilities of proliferation and multi-direction differentiation, so a lot of descendants are generated.

b. Through intercellular interactions and generating cell factors to inhibit the proliferation and immune reaction of T cells, thus rebuilding the immune function.

c. Stem cells are widely available, which are easy to separate, culture, proliferate and purify, daughter cells still remain the same characteristics as mother cells after proliferating many times.

d. Low immunogenicity. Stem cells dont have the character of immunological rejection and the problem of blood matching because stem cells are in the initial state and can not be identified easily.

e. Stem cells have the unique ability of homing. Through the function of homing, the traumatic signal can stimulate stem cells to differentiate new cells to replace the damaged organs and tissues so as to repair and rebuild the damaged cells.

Excerpt from:
Stem Cells - Kidney Disease Treatment

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