It is a highly safe treatment without the risk of major side effects seen in drug treatment and tumorigenesis like iPS cells. Because stem cells used are collected from each patient, there is no rejection due to transplantation. Since only a small amount of fat is collected from the abdomen, it is minimally invasive for the patient. There are no ethical issues like iPS cells and ES cells. Our body is made up of 37 trillion cells, of which 20 billion cells die every day, but the homeostasis maintenance function creates new cells and replaces with lost cells every day. A cell that has differentiation ability necessary for maintenance and regeneration in the body. Cells have the following two characteristics: 1. Differentiation: Create cells such as blood, nerves, bones, muscles, blood vessels, etc. 2. Self-replication ability: Repair of deficient cells. Immediately after administration, symptom improvement is induced, and the repair effect is expected to continue for several months. Although there are individual differences, we will follow up with 3 months, 6 months, 12 months after the first treatment, and administer stem cells as watching the health condition. Stem cells have the property of accumulating at the treatment site due to the “Homing Phenomenon”. Therefore, it is known that when stem cells are injected into the blood circulation, they naturally accumulate at the desired site and show a therapeutic effect. Generally stem cells support human growth, and there are more stem cells in childhood than adults. Stem cells still exist when mature and apparent growth stops, and they serve to replenish cells when tissue is damaged throughout life. Tissue stem cells such as the brain and heart are difficult to isolate from the body and are difficult to use for treatment, and so mesenchymal stem cells attract attention. Mesenchymal Stem Cells: (Research on the use of mesenchymal stem cells to prevent rejection after transplantation and use of cancer gene therapy drugs as carriers are also being conducted. In addition, mesenchymal stem cells are also used in the field of tissue engineering.) Stem cells include Pluripotent Stem Cells that can be created by any cell in the body, such as embryonic stem cells (ES cells) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), and Tissue Stem Cells obtained from the tissues and organs such as skin and blood. Treatment
4 Benefits of Stem Cell Treatment
Safe
No Rejection
Minimal Invasive
Ethical
*Stem cell therapy is a new treatment in the research stage, and scientific arguments to assure safety and therapeutic effects are not yet complete. 6 Effects of Stem Cell Treatment
Stem Cell Treatment
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Homing Phenomenon: A phenomenon in which stem cells transplanted from the periphery reach a niche (Lesion Site). It is known that induction signals such as cytokines and adhesion factors are supplied from the lesion, and the stem cells sense the induction signals and accumulate in the lesion to show a therapeutic effect.
Tissue Stem Cells that make up for lost cells are roughly divided into bone marrow stem cells and adipose stem cells. Adipose stem cells are characterized by fewer ethical problems and cancer risk than ES cells and iPS cells, and less invasive to patient’s body than bone marrow stem cells.