STEM CELL THERAPY
About Stem Cell Therapy
There are various methods in stem cell therapy. Among them, autologus stem cell transplant attracts a lot of attention.
This method is to extract adipose-derived stem cells (*1) from a patient's own body, culture and proliferate them in culture medium (necessary for at least two to three weeks) and inject back into the affected part of a patient. Unlike the previous medical treatments, it can enable fundamental cure of a untreatable disease.
Up till now, stem cell therapy has been utilized in cosmetic surgery and cosmetic medicine such as anti-aging. Despite few cases that have been applied to general diseases at present, the effectiveness of this therapy is confirmed by successful treatments of untreatable diseases and chronic illnesses.
More achievements as a result of clinical tests are expected from now on.
The background for such a remarkable effect has a characteristic difference from that of the other methods of stem cell transplant. It is the effectiveness of separating stem cells from fat cells, increasing the stem cells to an enormous number and injecting them (at least 50 million) back into a patient.
Study and research activities are going on around the world and the effectiveness of stem cell therapy against various illnesses is being unveiled. Since this therapy uses the method to return autologus stem cells to a patient's own body, high safety without immune rejection is confirmed.
Regenerative therapy applying stem cells is a boon to many troubled people and attracts a lot of attention as a national project.
*1 stem cell means an underlying cell which can grow into a tissue or organ. Stem cell can differentiate into a liver cell, kidney cell, bone cell, bone marrow cell,vascular endothelial cell, cardiac muscle cell and so on to be matured.