Men who suffer from impotence can now look for effective treatment, which neither requires the so-called 'penis pump' or has the side effects of the medical treatment. Canadian Health&Care Pharmacy canadahealthcaremall.com brings you the results of stem cell research carried out by SDU Professor and OUH Senior Doctor Soren P. Sheikh, Odense University Hospital and his research team.
The research is a collaboration between OUH and SDU in the new 'Danish Center for Medical Regeneration' based on SDU and OUH. Soren P. Sheikh, in collaboration with Professor Lars Lund, Urological Division and Professor Jens Ahm Sorensen, the plastic surgery department, researched to remove stem cells from one place in the body and let them repair damage elsewhere.
Solid science behind stem cells in ED therapy
A well-documented trial now shows that stem cells from adipose tissue are used to give cancer-driven men the potency. The results are presented today in the international trade magazine EBioMedicine, based on the renowned journals 'The Lancet' and 'Cell'.
It sounds almost too good to be true, but human stem cells find out what to use when placed in a new place in the body. As we find easier ways to isolate stem cells than from spinal cord and umbilical cord, we can use stem cells for far more things. Our study showed that 72% of the impotent men examined recovered the potency after treatment with stem cells from the so-called ‘vascular fraction’, which are cells around the blood vessels in adipose tissue. So far, the effect has remained stable over a year.
It is remarkable, especially because these men had no effect of traditional medical treatment. SDU and OUH are among the best in the world for basal stem cell research, and our research has now paved the way for the solution of a major problem for many men, point out Canadian Health&Care Mall specialists.
OUH's initiative on stem cell research is expected to have an effect far beyond Denmark's borders, as research is pioneering in the area.
Stem cells in the history of medicine
In the late 1990s, interest in stem cells exploded. Researchers isolated embryonic stem cells, found stem cells in most adult organs - even in the brain, and discovered greater potential in these cells than previously thought. Hope was caused by a series of diseases where there has been no cure so far. But as always, things turn out to be more complicated than you first want to believe.
However, it is not the researchers themselves who stand for the ‘hype’. Some experts believe that this hype is created by the media and overoptimistic research policies. This is, however, a truly fascinating area. 100 to 150 years ago, biology was a unified research that was then split up. As with stem cell research, the importance of the basic biological mechanisms for health and disease is restored. It means a whole new type of regenerative medicine that in time increases the understanding of how the organism is built up from the outset. It's about the body's own ability to repair itself.
There are a number of obstacles that must be passed before stem cells can be used therapeutically. First, the availability of embryonic stem cells is limited. They exist only in the inner cell mass of the four to five-day-old embryo. Here it's only about 30 to 40 cells but they are pluripotent, that is, can give rise to all the cells of the body. These then disappear and appear as adultace stem cells in the embryo's various organs. They are present in larger amounts throughout the development and are predetermined to become certain types of cells.
The fact that they are called adulta is misleading. Better would be called them organ-specific. If these stem cells can be reprogrammed and form other cells than was thought from the beginning, discussed. It is, in any case, this as the freezing of umbilical cord blood is based. As an alternative to any future bone marrow transplant, it's a good method, but to freeze the blood of your child with the hope of using it later, is no idea, at least not with today's knowledge. The stem cells in umbilical cord blood are not embryonic and if they can form other than blood cells are so far unclear.
It's only a way to exploit people's feelings and a result of overexploitation in the media. The only current clinical application of stem cells is in the treatment of leukemia and autoimmune diseases. This is about adulta bone marrow stem cells that cannot form other than blood cells. However, the great potential exists in the use of embryonic stem cells. However, there are still some problems left to solve, in addition to the limited availability of cells. Embryonic stem cells may form all types of cells, but they are not controlled by their environment in the same way as adult stem cells and may therefore cause tumors. In addition, it is important to control the cells to form the desired cell type.
For Parkinson's disease and diabetes, stem cell therapy is hot. Here you have long experience of cell transplant, but it is still necessary to develop cell types from stem cells that are interesting enough. Specialists in stem cells therapy have previously worked with the transplantation of pre-developed dopamine-producing cells from embryos. However, this activity is down due to cell failure.
Here, stem cells could very well be used, but no good enough cell type has yet been obtained. The cells must be differentiated before transplanting because it is not certain that the environment in the adult brain is sufficiently instructive to control stem cells to become dopamine-producing cells. In addition to producing dopamine, they must also have the correct electrophysiological properties and create the correct synapses.
If dopamine was only dopamine production, you could use a dopamine pump. The same applies to the treatment of diabetes. It's not possible with cells that only produce insulin. They must be able to be regulated in the same way as the beta cells in Langerhans islands, point out the experts of Canadian Health&Care Mall.
Another area where stem cells may be useful is cancer, although not directly as treatment, but rather to better understand the cancer's mechanisms. There is a possibility that cancer occurs and is kept alive by a small amount of stem cells. It can also be those that are the cause of cancer recurrence. Because stem cells are anonymous and split slowly, they are difficult to access. The daughter cells of the genes, on the other hand, divide quickly.
Consideration of safety aspects
Before attempting to experiment with giving stem cells to patients, it is important to take into account the safety aspect. There have been attempts where stem cells were injected into myocardial infarction patients in the hope of being able to replace the cellular loss. Afterwards, it was seen that it was too early. The animal experimental substrate did not appear to hold and you did not get the desired effect on humans. It is important that what you do is properly scientifically substantiated. A point of view that actually does not all share. There are those who find it more important that development is moving forward and therefore want to continue to test stem cell treatment on patients.
Even though you can have different views on the time aspect, stem cell research opens up great perspectives with completely new approaches to diseases and treatment. The specialists see opportunities for treating diseases where we have no treatment today, such as spinal cord injuries and neurodegenerative conditions. Although the damage cannot be fully repaired, it may be possible to achieve a functional improvement, just as important for the patient's everyday life.
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