Wednesday 18 September 2019

Cell Therapy in India

Human beings are either born healthy and remain healthy throughout their lives. Nevertheless, some are born with neurological disorders
and muscular disorders and other degenerative disorders that at times are severe and life threatening. Cell therapy is the safest treatment
option for a number of disorders using stem cells from various sources procured from the bone marrow. 
Degenerative disorders, like neuromuscular disorders, occur due to gene mutilation or from damage to the brain and muscle cells.
These disorders have a slow onset but can lifelong and painful disrupting the social life of the person. Stem cells are defined by their
ability to differentiate into multiple host cells and to self-renew. Bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells are highly proliferative,
and can inexhaustibly multiply into numerous mature cells. Hence, cell therapy in India has been proposed as a viable alternative for
treating degenerating disorders.  

Some of the best qualities of stem cells essential for cell therapy:

  • The capacity of proliferation and endless multiplication.
  • The ability to differentiation into any cell type or tissue
  • The capability to anchor into the damaged tissue after transplant.
  • The capability to function well for a long duration 
  • They are not rejected by the body and create no side effects
  • Cell treatment is safe and is done without having the patient go under the knife
  • Cell therapy in India assures improvement in the brain plasticity to obtain positive results.
Mesenchymal stem cells are categorized as adult stem cell population that can be easily obtained from the bone marrow.
They can multiply, differentiation and provide an inexhaustible source of neurons for cell replacement. In addition to their cell
replacement role, mesenchymal stem cells provide the protective paracrine effect. This paracrine effects control the further deterioration of the diseased tissues, regenerate the surviving injured cells and promote survival. 

Some of the disorders treated at Neurogen hospital are 

  • Autism, 
  • Muscular dystrophy 
  • Stroke
  • Traumatic brain injury 
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Dementia
  • Motor neuron disease
  • Intellectual disability

There has been a rapid growth for cell therapy in India and could one day replace the painstakingly expensive and prolonged ineffective conventional therapy for treating a multitude of neurological and muscular disorders.

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