Authors
Abhishek Maradikar
Abstract
Stem cells are the elementary cells present in all multicellular organisms who have the capability of propagation, redevelopment, and alteration to distinguished cells and manufacturing numerous tissues. Self-renewal and totipotency are the characteristic of the stem cells. In order to treat injuries and diseases, stem cell therapy is an emerging and revolutionary way with wide range of medical benefits. The chief motive of stem cell treatment is to restore/ heal damaged and unhealthy body parts with new healthy stem cell transplantation. The information of supervisors of stem cells has unlocked the remedial use of stem cells in the method of neuron restoration, curing of bone deficiency, testing of drug, gene treatment and cell based treatment in the procedure of muscle impairment, spinal cord damage, cancer treatment etc. Many scientific and ethical questions with many future challenges is present in the research of stem cell. This paper gives a general overview and update on stem cell, their properties and applications in the world of therapy. KEYWORDS: Stem Cell, Therapy, Tissues, Diseases
Introduction
Current medicine faces one of the major challenge which consists interpretation and implementation of reformative approaches for a certain amount of biotic objects, with an objective of mending injured or deteriorated tissues, organs, and cells; thus maintaining their actual purposes. For restoring normal function and achieving successful therapy, stem cell represent one of the most promising tool. It is the important dominion of biomedical study which have a prospective to deliver feasible treatment choices for incapacitating diseases and injuries.
Stem cells are one of the master cells of human body which have capability to grow into any one of body more than 200 cell type. Its exclusive and adaptable category of cells that can rift indeterminately and have an exclusive capability to renovate themselves and to augment to specified cell categories. A stem cell stays indifferent, until it obtains a signal to progress into a specified cell on the other side most cells of the body, like as heart cells or skin cells, are dedicated to carry out a precise purpose. Under the precise circumstances, or given the precise signals, stem cells have the prospective to progress into mature cells that have distinctive forms and specified purposes, like as skin cells, nerve cells, or heart cells. Their proliferative capability joined with the aptitude to become specified makes stem cells exclusive. Stem cells found in the primary mammalian embryo, at around 5-7 days after fertilization, are able to give rise to all the dissimilar cell types of the organism.
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APA Style | Maradikar, A. (2019). Stem Cell: Future of Medicine. Academic Journal of Biotechnological Research, 1(1), 17-20 |
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