Stem Cells
Stem Cell Therapy for Arthritis Pain, Disc Pain and Spine Disc Regeneration.
What are Stem Cells?
Stem cells are naturally occuring cells in the body that help to create new cells in existing healthy tissues. They also help repair tissues that are injured or damaged. They are the basis for the specific cell types that make up each organ in the body.
Stem cells are distinguished from other cells by a few important characteristics:
- they have the ability to self-renew
- they have the ability to divide for a long period of time
- they can differentiate into specialized cells including heart cells, liver cells, bone cells, cartilage cells, nerve cells and other cells.
The ability of cells to differentiate into a variety of other cells is termed multipotency. What scientists learn about controlling stem cell differentiation can become the basis for new treatments of many serious diseases and injuries.
At Celling Treatment Centers, we use patient's own stem cells to treat chronic orthopedic and spine conditions such as hip & knee arthritis, disc pain, degenerative discs, tendon and ligament injuries, facet arthritis, whiplash injury, bursitis of the shoulder, knee, hip or elbow and other chronic musculoskeletal problems that have failed to respond to convential treatment and for patients seeking alternatives.
Adult Stem Cells vs. Embryonic Stem Cells: what is the difference?
Adult Stem Cells are undifferentiated cells found among differentiated cells in a tissue or organ. An Adult Stem Cell can renew itself, and can differentiate to yield the major specialized cell types of the tissue or organ.
The primary roles of adult stem cells in a living organism are to maintain and repair the tissue in which they are found. Some scientists now use the term somatic stem cell instead of adult stem cell.
Embryonic Stem Cells are derived from embryos. Specifically, embryonic stem cells are derived from embryos that develop from eggs that have been fertilized in vitro—in an in vitro fertilization clinic—and then donated for research purposes with informed consent of the donors. They are not derived from eggs fertilized in a woman's body.
Celling Treatment Centers does not use embryonic stem cells.
LINKS THAT PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT STEM CELLS:
Celling Technologies – the industry leader in point of care stem cell processing.
Basic Information about Stem Cells - from the NIH.
Intervertebral Disc Regeneration by use of Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Review: Mesenchymal Stem Cells- capacity to differentiate into cartilage, tendon and ligament.
Current Understanding and Clinical Status - Stem cells down-regulate inflammation.
BU uses Stem Cells to Treat Hip AVN - bone marrow-derived stem cell news.
New Era of Cell-Based Orthopedic Therapies - no adverse effect in over 1000 patients.
Stem Cells improve Orthopedic Conditions - from The Medical News.
Sports Medicine Turns To Stem Cell "Repair Kits" - from the New York Times.
Adult Stem Cell Research Avoids Ethical Concerns - from the VOA.
FDA and ALTERED Stem Cells - Celling Treatment Centers does NOT use altered stem cells.
FDA and EXPANDED Stem Cells - Celling Treatment Centers does NOT use expanded stem cells.
Safety and Autologous Stem Cells - 101 orthopedic patients without adverse side effects.
Stem Cells Successfully Treat Degenerated Discs - from SPINE Journal, May 2010
Stem Cell 'on switch' may have been found - Market Watch
Regenerating the Spine in FOUR Steps - Orthopedics This Week
Regeneration and Replacement of the Intervertebral Disc - Principles of Tissue Engineering
Bone Marrow-Derived Stem Cells can Diffentiate into Disc Nucleus Cells - Stem Cells Journal
Stem Cells can aid Spinal Disc Repair - The Washington Times
Stem Cells in Degenerating Discs Discovered - Science Daily
Stem Cells Ease Back Pain without Surgery - The Times of India
PRP Reduces Pain & Improves Function in Osteoarthritis - The Medical News
Can Stem Cells Help Dick Cheney? - Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News
EMBRYONIC stem cells can transmit generic abnormalities - UC San Diego
Mesenchymal Stem Cells can Safely Treat Degenerative Disc Disease - Spine Journal, Dec, 2010
NEWS
Rehydrating the spine nucleus with stem cells, with or without bone morphogenic proteins, has been bouncing around the periphery of stem cell science for a decade or longer. A single study in 2009 changed all that. Degradation of the spine disc from either acute or chronic disc injury and/or degeneration is the basis for most of today's spinal implant sales. If physicians could rehydrate a degenerated disc reliably with stem cell injections it could transform the business of selling spinal fusion implants and instruments. But the nucleus is not a benign environment. Could stem cells survive the pH levels, the compressive and stress forces or avascular nature of the nucleus? Early in 2009 data emerged from a small canine study (n=12) that adipose stem cells in a hyaluronic cocktail could rehydrate the disc to near normal levels. Then on September 10th, a stronger study was presented at the Osteoarthritis Research Society International meeting in Montreal. The sheep study used a single, direct low-dose injection of allogenic or "off-the-shelf" adult stem cells into the degenerated disc nucleus. At the six-month follow up, discs that were initially severely damaged and degenerated had regenerated and "become indistinguishable from healthy non-degenerated discs in their histo-pathology, cartilage content, height, and structure" (quote from the study's principal investigator and one of the Stem Cell Summit's presenters). The control group of severely degenerated discs was either not injected or was injected with hyaluronic acid. The control group had significantly lower disc height (P<0.01), disordered disc structure (P<0.01), disrupted histopathology (P<0.01), and reduced cartilage content (P<0.05) at the end of six months.
Robin R. Young
Stem Cell Summit
02/16/2010
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