Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Cellular Therapy and An Overview of Its Treatments

By Dr. Oscar E. Castro


Many people have been asking what Cellular therapy really is. Basically, it's the adding of new cells to one's tissue. There is a procedure done wherein Cellular therapy can be successful and it's simply by doing tissue transplant to a person's organ, embryo or fetus. The damaged tissues in the person's body will also be healed through this process.

Cellular therapy can be a solution in treatment for issues affecting the liver, ovary, thymus, pancreas, heart, kidney, brain and more. The peptide treatments done can help deal with overcoming diseases that are hereditary and make a person even healthy.

The idea of incorporating peptide treatments to the human's organ started in the early 1900s right after injecting of thyroid cells to children with hyperthyroidism was done. To help prevent aging physical manifestations, Dr. Charles Sequard too in the 1800s discovered that injected animal testicles to human would help. Thus, it's one idea as well that gave birth to Cellular therapy. More doctors learned of this and applied the idea too until it reached to Sweden. Cellular therapy idea is simply like how bone marrow transplant is done wherein cell is injected after cleaning it from the removed bone marrow.

Cellular therapy has two types and these are known as allogeneic and autologous. As mentioned above, similar to bone marrow is the autologous because it's the process of removing the cell, cleaning and then injecting it back to the body of the person. Diseases that needs genetic match will be treated with this type of Cellular therapy. The disease would get worst if there's a failure in finding an exact genetic match with the cells of the person. It is necessary to remove incompatible cell tissues.

The second type of Cellular therapy is allogeneic. What makes this peptide treatment common is that it can be easily done as there's no genetic match required. There's no need for genetic match but the donor simply need to have the same type of tissue. Among the two types of cellular therapy, this is commonly done. It's common because of the simply requirement which is only having the same type of tissue. Many have said that the siblings have always been the donors.

Cells are preserved also for future use. As cells are preserved, many people gain some help with the cure of their diseases. However, preserving these cells is very sensitive as it might lost the genetic composition that a person needs. With cellular therapy, there have already been a lot of people cured.




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