StemCell Therapy

We can say that Stem Cell Therapy is the most efficient treatment for people with kidney disease. Its application makes dialysis or kidney transplant is no longer the only choice. No matter which type of kidney disease you are suffering from, you are still expected to live a normal life as the damaged kidneys can be saved. Now follow us to learn more about Stem Cell Therapy.

Stem Cells are pluripotent cells with strong power of self-replicating and directional differentiation. They are original and immature cells and have the potential ability to regenerate various tissues and organs.

There are different classifications of stem cells according to different criteria. They can be divided into totipotent stem cells, pluripotent stem cells and unipotent stem cells according to their developmental potentiality; according to the developmental stage, they can be divided into embryonic stem cells and somatic stem cells.

Certain stem cells and immune cells will be injected into body to activate human body's self-healing capability, regulate and control the diseased cells, activate cell function, increase the number of normal cells, enhance cell activity, improve the quality of cells and recover cell normal physiological functions.

Stem cells can differentiate into renal intrinsic cells, renal parenchymal cells which can replace the dead and necrotic renal cells and tissues and activate regeneration of body's own cells. These new functional cells can help repair kidney damages and rebuild kidney functions.

Stem Cell Therapy has not been commonly used in every country. Some argue that it is immoral to collect embryonic stem cells from the embryos because embryos is one form of life. Some people worry that companies will provide funds for in vitro fertilization and artificial abortion to obtain more cell lines and they suggest more researches on adult stem cells and give up embryonic stem cell research.

Nowadays, in China, mesenchymal stem cells or umbilical cord blood stem cells are used to replace embryonic stem cells.

-Stem cells have very strong power of proliferation and differentiation and they can produce large number of new functional cells.

-No rejection reaction. Because stem cells are the original cells of the body, the surface antigen is not obvious enough to be recognized by antibody. So there is no rejection reaction after a Stem Cell Therapy.

-It has the convenience of easy separation, culture, amplification and purification and still has the characteristics of stem cells after several times proliferations.

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