Stem cells - Revolution in medical science.

Stem cells - Revolution in medical science.

• Stem cells are totipotent because they have capability to differentiate in any organs and tissue through the mitosis cell division.

• Ernest Mcculloch and James Till got credit for stem cells in medical research. There are two types of stem cells.- Embryonic stem cell and adult stem cells.

Embryonic stem cells

• Stem cells are found at blastocyst during embryonic development whereas adult stem cells are found in adult tissue.

• Embryonic stems cells are pluripotent and capable in formation of all body tissue derived from ectoderm, endoderm and mesoderm.

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• They can develop more than two hundred types of cell if they get sufficient and essential conditions.

Adult stem cells

• On the other hand adult stem cells refer to any cell that is found in matured organism.

• The pleuripotent adult stem cells are rare and less in number but may found number of tissue including blood of umbilical cord.

• Most of the adult stem cells are multipotent and known as by its origin such as mesenchymal stem cells, endothelial stem cells etc. 

Use of stem cells in Medical treatment.

• Stem cell treatment is a strategy that are introduced into damaged tissue in order to treat disease and injury. 

• Stem cells can be grown and transformed into new tissue through the cell culture.

• It is believed that the stem cell therapy can change the treatment of human disease. 

• The self renew capability of stem cell has potential to regenerate the damage tissue without side effect and minimal risk of rejection.

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• In recently bone marrow and umbilical cord stem cells have been used to treat different types of cancer patient with condition like leukemia and lymphoma.

• It may now used to treat some autoimmune disease like rheumatoid arthritis and sclerosis.

• One day stem cell will be used by medical practitioner to treat brain damage, spinal cord injury, heart damage, baldness and so more. Stem cells are so important in field of genetics and pharmaceutical research.