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HAVE ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF STEM CELLS REVOLUTIONIZED THE POTENTIAL FOR THERAPY?

This essay is a comprehensive discussion of whether alternative sources of stem cells usually revolutionalize the potential for therapy. The discussion follows the three major categories of stem cells namely: Multipotent, Pluripotent and Totipotent.

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HAVE ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF STEM CELLS REVOLUTIONIZED THE POTENTIAL FOR THERAPY?  Stem cells are the cells that have the incredible potential of developing into several different types cell in the body. Serving as a kind of repair or restoration system for the body, these stem cells can tentatively divide with no limit to refill the other cells for as long as the animal or individual is still living. Burnett (p, 887) asserts that when the stem cell divides, every daughter cell has the potential of either remaining a stem cell or even becoming or forming another cell type with a more and highly specialized function, like the muscle cell, the red blood cell, or/and the brain cell. There are three main categories of stem cells which are as follows: multipotent, pluripotent and totipotent. • An egg that is fertilized can be considered totipotent, this means that its potential is total; that is, it gives rise to all the various types of cells present in the body. • Pluripotent stem cells can always result or give rise to any kind of cell in the body with the exception of those necessary in the development of a fetus. • Stem ...





... possibly necessitate the cell culture. Cells may as be obtained from the peripheral blood after cytokine or development factor stimulation.
The skeletal myoblasts are simply derived from a small model of skeletal muscle, which is consequently processed, and supplementary expansion of the myoblasts is reached through culture. The stem cells may as well be extracted and the cultured from some other autologous sources like adipose tissue. Kokorowski (p, 46) asserts that the umbilical cord blood that harbors a large number of the autologous embryonic stem cells may well or possibly be saved for use in future. A fresh cell administration after short manipulation, possibly for a matter of hours provides a simpler procedure than culturing cells, which includes more wide-ranging manipulation maybe for two weeks and a greater apprehension about the infection (Jahagirdar, p49).
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