The twenty first century is witnessing a revolution in cellular medicine. Thousands of patients around the world have already benefitted from biotechnology using stem cells, delivered safely by skilled doctors. Diseases once thought incurable are responding well to stem cell therapy and are restoring a quality of life to patients they thought they had lost forever.
Recently all the hoping and searching has been focused on stem cells due to thier ability to reproduce themselves and thus give rise to virtually all the functioning cells and tissues in our body.We are now witnessing new discoveries about stem cells and their ability to repair or regenerate damaged cells and tissues thus alleviating many degenerative diseases.
Thailand is at the hub of what is now commonly called medical tourism. Bangkok has some of the finest hospitals and clinics offering unsurpassed care in state-of-the-art facilities. Combining this with the advances in stem cell therapy in Thailand, it is a great choice to seek the treatment you or a family member may need.
HOW WE CAN HELP
At our medical centre in Bangkok, Thailand, we offer tailor-made protocols using:
Umbilical cord blood-derived stem cells: Purified mesenchymal and hematopoietic stem cells. Either as a single cell type or combination of both.
Adipose-derived stem cells : Mesenchymal cells - taken from your own body!
For more information on both these protocols and the different cell types used for each condition group go to OUR PROTOCOLS page on the main menu or click here.
Introduction to stem cell therapy
Accommodation included in StemCellTherapy 21 - Umbilical Cord Blood Treatments
Quick information about umbilical cord blood stem cell therapy:
What is a Stem Cell?
Stem cells are undifferentiated cells. Pluri– or totipotent stem cells have the potential, given the required microenvironment, to develop from a progenitor or parent cell into each cell type of the human body. When stem cells are referred to as being multipotent then their developmental capacity is a bit more limited and they have an ability to differentiate into many, but not all, cell types (thus multi lineages). Stem cells are capable of dividing and renewing themselves infinitely, acting as a regeneration and maintenance system.
The potency of stem cells makes them key to developing new regenerative and transplant cures.
Embryonic Versus Adult Stem Cells
The term adult stem cell is used for any stem cell derived from the postnatal animal (especially the human) to differentiate it from embryonic stem cells. Use of, and research on human embryonic stem cells is controversial, with debate focusing on moral and ethical concerns. Adult stem cells are typically source from bone marrow, fat, umbilical cord and placenta.
Cell Types
1. Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC)
Mesenchymal cells are considered to be multipotent adult progenitor cells that possess stem cell features. They have a considerable capacity for self-renewal while maintaining their multipotency.
These stem cells can differentiate into a range of different cell types (related tissue types are in brackets) associated with the musculoskeletal system such as osteoblasts (bone), chondrocytes (cartilage), adipocytes (fat), myocytes (muscle), myofibroblasts (tendon and ligament). Their ability to give rise to cells of non-musculoskeletal tissue such as brain or liver or pancreatic islets cells has been reported. Given this potential, mesenchymal stem cells make excellent candidates for use in treating a range of tissues affected by disease or damage; tissue remodeling depends on mesenchymal cells. As previously mentioned, these cells can be derived from Wharton's jelly present in the umbilical cord.
Allogeneic transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells between different individuals is also be possible as these cells appear to be immune privileged in that they are not necessarily rejected when implanted into unmatched recipients. 2. CD34 + cells These are haematopoietic stem cells, found in umbilical cord and bone marrow, with cell surface markers specific for CD34. The CD 34 molecule functions in cell-to-cell adhesion (CD is an abbreviation for: cluster of differentiation). CD34+ cells may be useful in several areas of clinical stem cell transplantation, including stem cell expansion and haematopoietic recovery. As a matter of clinical distinction, mesenchymal cells are CD34 negative.
What is Stem Cell Therapy?
This novel kind of therapy has as its basic tenet that stem cells recruited to sites of injury are involved in tissue repair, regeneration, and remodelling. Stem cells are isolated from cord blood or other, cultured in a laboratory and then therapeutically applied to ameliorate degenerative diseases, and serious injury in patients. The hope is that human stem cells can be used to heal patients with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, liver disease, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and other chronic diseases.
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