Stem Cell Treatment

Human Stem Cell Treatment is a medical treatment whereby human fetal stem cells, the mother cells of the body, are transplanted into a patient. These cellular building blocks are usually administered intravenously. It is a painless procedure, which usually takes place in approximately one hour, with no negative side effects attached to the process. The fetal stem cell searches out, detects and then attempts to repair any damage or deficit discovered, as well as releases growth factors, which stimulate the body's own repair mechanisms.

Stem Cells have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body. Serving as a sort of repair system for the body, they can theoretically divide without limit to replenish other cells as long as the person or animal is still alive. When a stem cell divides, each new cell has the potential to either remain a stem cell or become another type of cell with a more specialized function, such as a muscle cell, a red blood cell, or a brain cell.

Human fetal Stem Cell Treatment can be compared to a bone marrow transplant, which is known to be a successful treatment for a variety of malignant and genetic diseases. The primary advantage of fetal Stem Cell Treatment and transplantation is that unlike a traditional bone marrow, or umbilical cord blood stem cell transplant, there is no need for the difficult and at times futile attempt to find a donor match.

The Fetal Stem Cell does not have a cellular fingerprint; therefore they can be given to anyone without any rejection phenomena, thereby eliminating the use of drugs that suppress the much needed immune system. Graft versus Host Reaction (where the donor cells attack the recipient, a dangerous and potentially fatal complication of bone marrow and umbilical cord transplantation) does not exist in fetal stem cell treatment.

Due to their controlled ability to rapidly proliferate, and their immediate release of growth factors, the fetal Stem Cells are capable of, at times, quickly reversing lost functions. These properties of the fetal Stem Cell Treatment process allow for unique treatment intervention in a multiplicity of diseases for a large group of patients who up until now have not had any means for recovery.

There are several benefits for the patient. A large number of patients have been treated with stem cell treatment, with by current standards, remarkable physical and psychological improvements. The range of human diseases currently viewed as candidates for fetal Stem Cell Therapy is enormous and is continually expanding.

There are three classes of Stem Cells used in stem cell treatment: totipotent, multipotent, and pluripotent. A fertilized egg is considered totipotent, meaning that its potential is total; it gives rise to all the different types of cells in the body. Stem Cells that can give rise to a small number of different cell types are generally called multipotent. Pluripotent Stem Cells can give rise to any type of cell in the body except those needed to develop a fetus.

Although it is still considered to be an experimental treatment in the United States, human fetal Stem Cell Treatment has been performed in other countries.