MARISSA STEM CELL THERAPY: 2015

Friday, October 2, 2015

Advanced Medical & Cosmetics Stem Cell Treatment

With all the controversy surrounding stem cells you may have missed hearing about many of the benefits for the health and medical fields. You may not even be aware that stem cells already have many applications for treating disease. Their potential to treat even more diseases in the future means that scientists are working hard to learn about how stem cells function and how they can treat some of the more serious diseases affecting the world.

Stem Cells and Human Development

Stem cells have enormous potential in health and medical research but to fully harness this potential, scientists are studying how stem cells transform, or differentiate, into the diverse range of specialised cells that make humans what they are today. Because diseases such as cancer or conditions such as birth defects are thought to occur because of problems in the differentiation process, an understanding of the development that happens in normal cells will help scientists treat the developmental errors that can occur.

Stem Cells and Cell-Based Therapies

Another potential application of stem cells is to form cells and tissues for medical therapies. Currently, it is donated organs and tissues that are substituted for damaged or dysfunctional ones. Sadly, the number of people awaiting a transplant is much higher than the number of available organs. Transplant waiting lists are enormous and many people die awaiting transplants. Stem cells offer a viable source of replacement cells to treat diseases and can potentially reduce the morbidity and mortality for those awaiting transplants. Some of the areas that stem cells can benefit include:

Parkinson's disease
Type I diabetes
Arthritis
Burn victims
Cardiovascular diseases

Potential to Reverse Diseases

By directing stem cells to differentiate into specialised cell types, there is the exciting possibility to provide a renewable source of replacement cells for those suffering from diseases.

The potential to reverse diseases is also not a foreign one.

Heart Attack - For example, a patient who has suffered from a heart attack and sustained heart damage could have the damaged tissue replaced by healthy new muscle cells.

Parkinson's Disease - The destruction of brain cells in conditions such as Parkinson's disease can hopefully be reversed with the replacement of new, healthy and functioning brain cells.

Genetic Defects - Even more promising is the potential to address genetic defects that are present from birth by restoring function and health with the introduction of normal healthy cells that do not have these defects.

Burn Victims

Burn victims tend to endure an enormous amount of pain from their wounds as well as frustration from the challenges of healing. Instead of donor tissues being donated, stem cells could be used to produce new and healthy tissues. This is essentially similar to therapies already being used, such as bone marrow transplants, where stem cells create different specialised blood cells.

Scientists aim to locate and remove specific stem cells from a tissue and then trigger them to differentiate outside of the body before transplanting them back into the patient to replace damaged tissues. In burn victims, a very small piece of the skin can be progressively grown, allowing doctors to cover a burn that is often much larger than the original size of the skin piece.

Stem Cells and Drug Testing

Stem cells have an important benefit for the pharmaceutical field. New drugs can be tested on stem cells to assess their safety before testing drugs on animal and human models. For example, a cancer cell line could be created to test an anti-tumour drug. If the conditions can be perfectly replicated, testing drugs could provide very accurate results.

The current benefits of stem cell usage are already well documented and it is expected that continued research will pave the way for new treatments. For those suffering from serious diseases, stem cells offer hope for effective treatment or perhaps even a reversal of the disease. Time will confirm the full success of stem cell therapies and continued research should teach us more about using stem cells to treat debilitating medical conditions.

Sunday, September 6, 2015

Stem Cell Therapy

Stem cells are undifferentiated biological cells that can differentiate into specialized cells and can divide (through mitosis) to produce more stem cells. They are found in multicellular organisms. In mammals, there are two broad types of stem cells: embryonic stem cells, which are isolated from the inner cell mass of blastocysts, and adult stem cells, which are found in various tissues. In adult organisms, stem cells and progenitor cells act as a repair system for the body, replenishing adult tissues. In a developing embryo, stem cells can differentiate into all the specialized cells—ectoderm, endoderm and mesoderm (see induced pluripotent stem cells)—but also maintain the normal turnover of regenerative organs, such as blood, skin, or intestinal tissues.

There are three known accessible sources of autologous adult stem cells in humans:

1. Bone marrow, which requires extraction by harvesting, that is, drilling into bone (typically the femur or iliac crest).

2. Adipose tissue (lipid cells), which requires extraction by liposuction.

3. Blood, which requires extraction through apheresis, wherein blood is drawn from the donor (similar to a blood donation), and passed through a machine that extracts the stem cells and returns other portions of the blood to the donor.

Stem cells can also be taken from umbilical cord blood just after birth. Of all stem cell types, autologous harvesting involves the least risk. By definition, autologous cells are obtained from one's own body, just as one may bank his or her own blood for elective surgical procedures.

Adult stem cells are frequently used in medical therapies, for example in bone marrow transplantation. Stem cells can now be artificially grown and transformed (differentiated) into specialized cell types with characteristics consistent with cells of various tissues such as muscles or nerves. Embryonic cell lines and autologous embryonic stem cells generated through Somatic-cell nuclear transfer or dedifferentiation have also been proposed as promising candidates for future therapies.^[1] Research into stem cells grew out of findings by Ernest A. McCulloch and James E. Till at theUniversity of Toronto in the 1960s.

Types of stem cells

Pluripotent Stem Cells (PS cells)

helps babies grow within the womb. These are termedembryonic stem cells. These cells form at the blastocyst stage of development. A blastocyst is a hollow ball of cells that is smaller than a pinhead. The embryonic stem cells lie within this ball of cells. Recent research has enabled scientists to derive pluripotent cells from adult human skin cells. These are termed induced pluripotent stem cells or iPS cells.

Rawatan Astetik

HARIAN METRO
Ahad, 26 Julai 2015 @ 5:00 AM

Akhbar harian metro telah menulis artikel tentang estetik dalam kalangan masyarakat di Malaysia.Namun begitu,obses terhadap kecantikan membuatkan sesetengah masyarakat lupa atau ‘pejam mata’ terhadap kesan sampingan suntikan filler tanpa memastikan ia palsu ataupun asli.

Lebih menyedihkan, ramai yang kurang pengetahuan bagaimana mahu mengenal pasti suntikan filler palsu dan asli. Tanpa peduli kesan sampingan jangka panjang, semakin ramai yang tertipu dengan kesan jangka pendek suntikan ini.

Ketua Pengarah Eksekutif Perubatan Estetik Pusat Perubatan Beverly Wilshire, Dr Liow Tiong Sin berkata, masih ramai bersikap tidak ambil kisah mengenai suntikan filler sama ada palsu atau asli.

“Pada hakikatnya, memang susah hendak membezakan antara filler palsu atau asli dengan mata kasar kerana pembungkusan dan label produk palsu itu sendiri kelihatan seakan filler asli.

“Pengeluar filler asli seperti Galderma yang disahkan Kementerian Kesihatan tidak dibenarkan menjual bahan suntikan seperti filler kepada sesiapa melainkan doktor estetik yang berlesen yang beroperasi di klinik estetik yang berlesen sahaja.

“Justeru, sekiranya filler atau rawatan filler didapati bukan daripada doktor atau klinik estetik yang berlesen, seperti dijual di ekspo kecantikan, salun kecantikan atau melalui Internet, kemungkinan ia adalah palsu dan bukan daripada pengeluar filler disahkan,” katanya kepada Metro Ahad.

Menurutnya, bagi menjamin keselamatan pengguna, masyarakat perlu mendapatkan perkhidmatan estetik daripada klinik atau pusat perubatan yang berlesen dan pengamal perubatan estetik yang bertauliah sahaja.

Ia amat penting penyuntik filler berkenaan adalah pakar perubatan bertauliah yang arif tentang anatomi wajah dan tubuh manusia supaya suntikan itu dilakukan pada lapisan kulit yang betul.

Menjelaskan lebih lanjut mengenai bahan yang digunakan dalam suntikan filler itu, beliau menjelaskan terdapat pelbagai bahan yang digunakan dalam filler palsu, termasuk silikon atau asid hilorunik yang tidak asli dan tidak steril, liquid parafin, gel petrol dan juga minyak sayur yang membahayakan kesihatan.

“Antara risiko menggunakan suntikan filler palsu adalah kebanyakan bahan ini tidak boleh diterbiodegradasikan (are non-biodegradable) dan akan kekal dalam tubuh pesakit sepanjang hayat. Ia kelihatan seperti ketulan pejal di bawah kulit yang hanya boleh dikeluarkan melalui pembedahan.

“Selain itu, jika filler palsu disuntik ke dalam saluran atau pembuluh darah, saluran ini akan tersumbat seterusnya menyebabkan kematian sel di sekelillingnya.

“Pendek kata, bahagian tubuh yang menjalani suntikan akan menjadi busuk, satu proses yang dipanggil ‘necrosis’. Dalam kes begini, kulit dan daging yang telah busuk harus dibuang dan bahagian yang terjejas harus dibina semula dengan menggunakan teknik seperti graf kulit,” katanya.

Risiko lain jika filler palsu itu disuntik ke dalam saluran atau pembuluh darah yang menghala ke biji mata, ia boleh tersumbat dan pesakit boleh menjadi buta.

Pesakit juga boleh mengalami tekanan jiwa walaupun selepas membina semula bahagian yang sudah rosak akibat filler palsu ataupun akibat penyuntik yang tidak tahu mengenai anatomi wajah dan tubuh manusia.

Dr Liow berkata, kurang kesedaran menyebabkan perkara ini berleluasa. Beliau turut menasihati orang ramai yang mahu melakukan suntikan filler supaya membuat penyelidikan terlebih dulu.

“Sebelum menjalani apa-apa rawatan, pengguna harus membuat penyelidikan mengenai latar doktor, rawatan dan produk yang digunakan oleh pusat perubatan berkenaan.

“Mereka harus pastikan doktor dan klinik estetik berkenaan mempunyai lesen yang sah. Doktor yang sah akan memaparkan sijil yang mengesahkan beliau telah menjalani latihan berkaitan estetik daripada perbadanan estetik yang sahih dan dikenali.

“Doktor yang sah juga akan menjalankan rawatan di klinik yang berlesen serta terdaftar dan bukan di tempat seperti bilik hotel, salon kecantikan ataupun di rumah,” katanya.

Liow turut mengingatkan bahawa rawatan estetik bukan rawatan kecemasan. Pengguna harus diberi masa yang mencukupi untuk mempertimbangkan rawatan itu dan memilih pakar yang sesuai dengan diri mereka.

Pengguna harus berwaspada jika rawatan ditawarkan pada harga diskaun yang tinggi, dan penjual menjanjikan hasil yang tidak realistik (seperti rawatan yang boleh mengubah wajah pengguna 100 peratus supaya kelihatan seperti pelakon atau penyanyi terkenal).

Pengguna boleh mempertimbangkan maklumat daripada maklum balas serta ulasan peribadi pengguna yang pernah melalui prosedur dan produk tertentu yang dipaparkan menerusi Internet ataupun apabila berjumpa sendiri dengan seorang doktor.

Pengetahuan mendalam dapat membantu pengguna membuat keputusan yang bijak, selamat dan waras. Mengenai golongan yang lebih terdedah kepada risiko ini, Liow berkata wanita biasanya teraniaya kerana mereka lebih kerap ke pusat kecantikan dan terpedaya dengan promosi dan janji manis lebih-lebih lagi apabila produk palsu itu dijual pada harga diskaun yang murah.

“Biasalah wanita memang lebih terdedah kerana mereka sangat menitikberatkan soal kecantikan dan sanggup berhabis ribuan ringgit asalkan hasilnya memuaskan.

“Tetapi perlu diingat, suntikan filler tidak asli akan memberi kesan sampingan jika diambil berterusan. Bukan sahaja akan mengalami bengkak dan ketulan berkekalan yang boleh bertukar menjadi barah, ada kala ia boleh merosakkan rupa seseorang sehingga perlu menjalani pembedahan bina semula yang memakan kos amat tinggi.

“Itupun bahagian yang terjejas tidak boleh 100 peratus kembali kepada asal. Pesakit boleh mengalami tekanan jiwa walaupun setelah menjalani pembinaan semula,” katanya sambil menasihatkan orang ramai supaya lebih berhati-hati terutama dengan filler harga lebih rendah.

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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Stem Cell

There are three known accessible sources of autologous adult stem cells in humans:

1. Bone marrow, which requires extraction by harvesting, that is, drilling into bone (typically the femur or iliac crest).

2. Adipose tissue (lipid cells), which requires extraction by liposuction.

Types of stem cells

Pluripotent Stem Cells (PS cells)

These possess the capacity to divide for long periods and retain their ability to make all cell types within the organism. The best known type of pluripotent stem cell is the one present in embryos that helps babies grow within the womb. These are termedembryonic stem cells. These cells form at the blastocyst stage of development. A blastocyst is a hollow ball of cells that is smaller than a pinhead. The embryonic stem cells lie within this ball of cells. Recent research has enabled scientists to derive pluripotent cells from adult human skin cells. These are termed induced pluripotent stem cells or iPS cells.

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Friday, October 2, 2015

Potential to Reverse Diseases

Burn Victims

Stem Cells and Drug Testing

Sunday, September 6, 2015

Stem Cell Therapy

Rawatan Astetik

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Stem Cell