Stem Cell Transplant: a New Method to Treat Kidney Disease

Whether stem cell transplant can treat kidney disease is a controversial tissue in history. However, numerous cases in clinic have proved that stem cell transplant can treat kidney disease effectively, which is even superior to any other therapies. In this
What is stem cell? How about the classification of stem cell?
Generally, stem cell can be divided into autologous stem cell and allosome stem cell
Autologous stem cell can be divided into bone marrow hemopoietic stem cell and peripheral blood stem cell. Bone marrow hemopoietic stem cell is extracted from bone marrow, and then is separated. After that, it will in turn be injected to patients’ body. However, the disadvantage of this method is that patients will suffer from much pain, and it is not difficult to be received by patients. So, peripheral blood stem cell comes into being consequently. Peripheral blood stem cell is injected into patients’ body through the method that after a kind of medicine is mobilized, organs and marrow stem cell’s suspension are mobilized into peripheral blood. However, just as the saying goes, every coin has two sides. There are also some disadvantages in peripheral blood stem cell. The number is not much, and it is from oneself. In addition, patients with kidney disease have low immunity, so the effect is not as satisfactory as that of what we expected.
Allosome stem cell can be divided into cord blood stem cell and embryonic stem cell. Cord blood stem cell means 10-15ml cord blood is applied, and then is injected into human body. As for the kind of cord blood, there are two kinds: one stored in cold and one fresh in the moment. As for the former, maybe due to being freezed, the effective may be not as good as fresh ones. And fresh cord blood stem cell seems much better.
Stem cell treats kidney disease
With the development of modern medicine, stem cell research has been a hot research focus recently in life science. And stem cell transplant to treat disease is an important research, especially for those suffering from kidney disease. When it comes to the treatment of end-stage kidney disease, we will think of dialysis, a very conventional treatment, which is widely used all around the world. It is obvious that there are many disadvantages and complications in this therapy, and dialysis can not treat kidney disease. Patients can not prolong life fundamentally. As for kidney transplant, the donated kidney is not easy to get, and even if the donated kidney is found, it may not match the patients who are suffering from kidney disease. What’s worse, after kidney transplant, patients must take medicines for forever to avoid the rejection because of the transplantation.
So stem cell transplant is no doubt a breakthrough in medical area, which brings hope to plenty of patients especially for those with kidney failure.
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