To determine the effectiveness of stem cells in diseases control

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Subject Area:Biology

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The paper also focuses on the various types of stem cells used in treatment, their sources and how they are generated to differentiate them into desired cells ready for use. Some of the disease treatable are either hereditary, caused by a malfunction in enzymes or through psychological factors. The paper uses a systematic review of other scholarly articles and case studies as the preferred methodology. Therefore, this paper is not just an analysis o determine the effectiveness of the stem cells, but also it indicates the future of stem cell therapy in disease control. Contents ABSTRACT 1 1. FINDINGS 13 CHAPTER FIVE 14 5. CONCLUSIONS 14 Work Cited 15 CHAPTER ONE 1. Introduction Across the world, many people have lost their lives due to diseases that are chronic, hereditary and some are not even that severe, but have posed a great danger.

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Therefore, it is true to say that diseases are an investable element of human life (Inoue 411). People’s perceptions and understandings are that diseases only attack at the moment when the body is weakest, but the body defence system is always fighting diseases even when the body appears healthy and strong. They are used to repair faulty cells and also regenerate new ones in the body. Notably, a slight improvement in the cells of the body depicts an improvement in the functioning of the tissues in the body and subsequently the body organs. Some of the stem cells used include skin cell, blood cells, cord blood stem cells, bone marrow stem cells. Therefore, this paper seeks to find out how effective are the stem cells in the quest by medical experts to control diseases in the human body.

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To achieve this paper looks at some of the stem cells used, how they are used in diseases control and the diseases that can be treated or prevented using stem cells. However, their effectiveness in disease control is yet to be fully established. Research question/objectives 1. Are the stem cells safe in use for disease control? 2. How are stem cells used for disease control? 3. What is the extent to which doctors go to turn stem cells into treatment to achieve disease control? 1. On the other hand, stem cell therapy can be used in the treatment of heart disease by studying how stem cells develop into heart muscle. Also, stem cell therapy is used in developing new drugs for the treatment of diseases.

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The most commonly used stem therapy is embryonic stem therapy. The embryonic stem cells usually develop to form mesodermal cells, ectodermal cells, and endodermal cells. These three kinds of stem further developed into different types of cells, for example, red blood cells, and skin cells eye colour cells among other cells present in the body. Treatment of diseases like leukaemia kills all the cells into bone marrow; hence they hematopoietic stem cells come handy in replacing the cells (Angelucci 814). The replaced can either come from a suitable donor or the bone marrows of the patient before the chemotherapy gets undertaken. Finally, the mesenchymal stem, cells; they are found in every organ of the body. Their main function is to repair the body tissues by regenerative into cells that form connective tissues and bone tissues.

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They also offer an alternative treatment for bone fracture since they speed up the repair of the bone and also treat the harm of the body immune system that is overactive (Pierro 478). Naturally, stem cells continuously regenerate even after they have been implanted ted into the donor tissue. Statistics indicate that this is hazardous to the body of the patients since they can grow into harmful cells that are cancerous and may result in tumours in the affected tissue (Barfield et al. Essentially, they lose the normal cell mechanism that is in control of the growth hence becoming defective. For example, the pluripotent cells form teratomas tumours if they fail to differentiate. Other risks include rejection of the tissue, infections, and complication in the body immune system.

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The making of stem cells for use in the treatment The most commonly used type of stem cells are the embryonic stem cells, and they are used in the treatment of a wide range of diseases. However, the process of deriving them from the one-week-old embryo in a controlled test in the laboratory to the clinic for use in treatment is long and full of challenges (Hassan et al. Mostly, before using the stem cells to treat h8uamn being, research has to be done on the cells by using animals to grow them into the right kind of cells needed. Also, the safety of the cell in the human body is tested in animals before human trials get done. The embryonic cells constitute a variety of cells that make up the fetus.

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The systematic review is a method of research whereby literary materials relevant to the topic are reviews through a rigorous method. The data collected from the materials may be analyzed using the Meta-analysis method (Woodruff and Patrice 1012). Scholarly material that depicted the effectiveness of stem cells in disease control were gathered and registered in an alphabetical order using the titles. Also details like the authors, year of publication and whether peer-reviewed or not noted down. The rigorous analysis of this material helped in informing about the r research question for the study. First, the experiments done on non-human subjects like mice have proved inadequate in determining and developing regenerative medicine. Second, there are significant variances in the embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells present in different tissues; however, the implications of these differences are not yet clear.

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Finally, the cell line in the body tissues change over time and start accumulating mutations that are harmful. Therefore, the cell lines of stem cells are also expected to change in that manner when used in treatment. CHAPTER FIVE 5. Thorax 68. Weiss, Daniel J. et al. A placebo-controlled, randomized trial of mesenchymal stem cells in COPD.  Chest 143. Stem cell divisions, somatic mutations, cancer etiology, and cancer prevention.  Science 355. McGrath, Erica L. et al. Differential responses of human fetal brain neural stem cells to Zika virus infection. Bartfeld, Sina, et al. In vitro expansion of human gastric epithelial stem cells and their responses to bacterial infection.  Gastroenterology 148. Inoue, Haruhisa, et al. iPS cells: a game changer for future medicine. Tanna, Tanmay, and Vatsal Sachan.

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Mesenchymal stem cells: potential in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Current stem cell research & therapy 9. Bhasin, Ashu, et al. Stem cell therapy: a clinical trial of stroke.

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