Stem Cell Therapy for Heart Disease
About 610,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year accounting for 1 in every 4 deaths. It is the leading cause of death for both men and women. While lifestyle changes, medications and surgery can help, there is still much to be discovered in the treating of conditions impacting the heart. Research into allograft stem cell therapy as a beneficial treatment for individuals suffering from various heart conditions has been promising. Preclinical studies of allograft stem cell therapy for cardiovascular disease indicate that cell therapy promotes cardiac repair. The quality of this research has improved over the past 10 to 15 years due to the amount of time it has been a serious subject of study. While allograft stem cells are not argued to provide for complete cardiac recovery, the research is still promising for individuals who are undergoing other treatments and lifestyle changes and are considering adding allograft stem cell therapy as a treatment option. Considered a regenerative treatment option,...
Treating Neurological Disease with Stem Cells
A report from the World Health Organization shows that neurological disorders, ranging from epilepsy to Alzheimer’s Disease, affect up to one billion people worldwide. This report, having originally come out in 2007, can only look more daunting today with no apparent advancements in treating many common neurological diseases. At that time, an estimated 6.8 million people died every year as a result of neurological disorders. Research indicates that allograft stem cell therapy may prove effective in treating various neurological conditions. Conditions such as Parkinson’s Disease, Huntington’s Disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer’s Disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), and spinal cord injury are caused by a loss of neurons and glial cells in the brain or spinal cord. In recent years, neurons and glial cells have successfully been generated from allograft stem cells such as mesenchymal stem cells (found in the umbilical cord allograft stem cells provided at Stem Cells LA). Such research supports the hope for allograft stem cell-based therapies in the future...
Autoimmune Diseases & Stem Cell Therapy Applications
It can be challenging to treat autoimmune disease. This unique phenomenon occurs when the body’s protective shield, or immune system, attacks its own vital organs, cells, and tissues. Treating autoimmune diseases begins with understanding why the disease takes place in the first place. The body’s main line of defense against infectious organisms is the immune system. In order to protect the body successfully, the immune system must be able to distinguish between cellular components that are part of its own body and those that are not, such as foreign bacteria. There are two general errors the immune system can make during this process. The first is the most common of these two potential errors; the immune system does not react quickly enough and an infection begins. In the second error, the immune system misidentifies its own cells or components as foreign and autoimmune disease happens. Helping With Autoimmune Diseases Medical science has made great advancements in treating many conditions that are forms of...
Can Urological Diseases Be Treated with Stem Cells?
Millions of men and women worldwide experience a detrimental impact on the quality of life from a variety of urologic diseases. Eliminating urologic dysfunction in conditions from urinary incontinence to overactive bladder has always been challenging. Current gold standard therapies still often provide only temporary symptomatic relief without addressing the underlying cause of disease development. Recent Studies in Urological Diseases In recent studies, the usage of allograft stem cells to halt disease progression and reverse underlying pathology has shown promise restoring normal function for various urologic diseases. Allograft stem cells may be useful in treating a variety of urologic conditions due to their ability for multilineage cell differentiation and self-renewal. This can give allograft stem cells with proper application regenerative properties assisting in processes like tissue repair. Allograft stem cell injections may also have a therapeutic effect via the secretion of bioactive factors that direct other allograft stem and progenitor cells (biological cells with the ability to differentiate like allograft stem cells)...
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