Stem Cell Therapy For The Heart - Hype or Hope?
The stem cell therapy is constantly emerging and there are newer studies every day. Let's familiarize ourselves with it. What are stem cells? Stem cells are a unique type of cells which can cater to treating various diseases. They also have the ability to differentiate themselves into one or more types of cells. While treating an injury or a disease, stem cell undergoes cell division and gives rise to one daughter stem cell and one progenitor cell. A progenitor cell form itself into a fully differentiated state, before that it's just an intermediate cell type. Stem cells have different types based on their origin such as embryonic stem cells (ESCs) or as adult stem cells (ASCs). How is a normal heart cell? A human heart has the tendency to grow or renew itself. The number of hearing cells keeps on increasing while the baby is still located in the womb only. Along with the increase in our age the size of heart cells increases which becomes a deciding factor in determining the ...