Stem Cells Are A Hope For Many Lung Disease Patients!

Posted by Priya Sharma on December 19th, 2017

A superfluity of new treatments for lung cancer is being verified in ongoing clinical trials. While numerous promising approaches of detection and therapy should be available to the public in the next few years, doctors still depend on prevailing approaches for the superlative outcomes in the general population. The use of stem cells for treating lung ailments has great charm. As we learn more about the therapeutic potential of stem cells and other cell remedies in clinical trials of non-lung ailments, we hope to come up to further contemplation of these approaches in lung diseases.

Countless clinics that are offering stem cells for lung disease treatments make assertions about what stem cells can and cannot do that are not buoyed by our understanding of science. There are many diverse kinds of stem cells that come from varied places in the body or are formed at varied times in our lives. These include embryonic stem cells that exist only at the initial phases of development and several kinds of ‘tissue-specific’ or ‘adult’ stem cells that appear during fetal development and remain in our bodies during life.

Our bodies use diverse categories of tissue-specific stem cells to fit a specific purpose. Tissue-specific stem cells are restricted in their potential and chiefly make the cell categories found in the tissue from which they are derived. For instance, the blood-forming stem cells (or hematopoietic stem cells) in the bone marrow rejuvenate the blood, while neural stem cells in the brain make brain cells. A neural stem cell won’t instinctively make a blood cell and similarly a hematopoietic stem cell won’t spontaneously make a brain cell. Thus, it is improbable that a single cell type could be used to treat a host of unrelated ailments that involve diverse tissues or organs. Be cautious of clinics that offer treatments with stem cells that originate from a portion of the body that is different from the portion being treated. As defined above, every type of stem cell fulfills a particular function in the body and cannot be anticipated to make cell varieties from other tissues. Thus, it is unlikely that a single kind of stem cell treatment can treat several unrelated conditions, such as diabetes and Parkinson’s disease. The underlying reasons are very different and different cell varieties would need to be replaced to treat each lung related illness.