Can Stem Cell Revive Dying Kidney
2011-12-22 10:18
Dying kidney did not yet lead to a cure in past years and roughly most of patients will lead to Uremia eventually. Recently, medical breakthrough has lent support to a drastically new approach—stem cell transplant reviving dying kidney. Through intravenous drip, stem cell is transplanted into human body. These stem cells multiply and regenerate the impaired renal tissue, which causes renal intrinsic cells to reactivate and achieve the goal of remedying renal disease.
A stem cell is just like a computer with a blank hard drive waiting for software, which is able to assume any program it gets. The ability of stem cells to self-renew and give rise to subsequent generations with variable degrees of differentiation capacities, offers significant potential for generation of tissues that can potentially replace diseased and damaged areas in the body, with minimal risk of rejection and side effects.
After hundreds of clinical trials, nephrologists can already successfully extract and cultivate stem cells. Already, treating kidney disease has occupied one section in the larger arena of stem cell transplant.
Dying kidney is always associated with kidney disease, in which some parts of renal intrinsic are dying and losing their functions. After transplanted into human body, stem cells can submit themselves to find the impaired tissues and locate around them. Differentiation and multiply ability will be performed. The stem cells will produce a large number of daughter cells. These daughter cells will continue to develop into various cells, tissues and renal vessels the kidney needs. Thereby, the dying renal cells will be replaced with new generated renal cells. And the lost renal function will be called back with these new differentiated stem cells. In this way, dying kidney awakes and revives on the basis of stem cell treatment.
One more encouraging result of stem cell treatment is associated with children suffering from kidney disease. Stem cell treatment is proved that it show significant recovering effects without side effects in their cognitive and physical abilities. It is exploring a new era in child kidney disease.
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