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what are stem cells?

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What are stem cells: Stem cell is undiffereciated cell of a multicellular organism, that is capable of giving rise to indefinitely more cells of the same type.There are two broad tupe of stem cells.1 ebryonic stem cells which are isolated from inner cell mass of blastocysts2 adult stem cells which are found in various tissues.
Embyonic stem cells can be used for any specialised cells, while adult cells act as repair sy.

Question 2

how are stem cells extracted?

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2 ways: Stem cells are obtained through a series of bone marrow aspirations, usually from the posterior superior area of the pelvis.  They can also be collected by peripheral blood collection from a vein usually in the arm.  Hope this helps.

Question 3

what are totipotent, pluripotent and multipotent stem cells?

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STEM CELLS!: Totipotent stem cells can become ANY type of cell in the body AND a placenta.
 Pluripotent can become all types of cells in the body but not a placenta.
Multipotent cells can develop into many types of cells, but not as many types of pluripotent.

Question 4

what're embryonic stem cells?

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Perhaps our future.: A human embryo consists of 50-150 embryonic stem cells 4–5 days after fertilization, and those few cells eventually differentiate into all of the different specialized cells that compose the entire human body. Since those stem cells can potentially be anything they want to be, the potential for curing multitudes of human disease, using them, is enormous.

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stem cells for type1 daibetis?

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There is: Interest in strong immunosuppressive therapies early in the course of type i dm, and beta islet cell transplant, but this is "not ready for prime time" currently.

Question 6

can stem cells help reverse ms?

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Unknown: Use of adult mesenchymal stem/stromal cells are being reported to improve neurological function and regeneration. In clinical trials now in us/interntl.  Trend is to isolate from fat tissue (which have the highest conc of mscs in the body.  Harvested by lipoaspiration, isolation/conc of mscs can be cultured and used in some specific instances with good early reporting.

Question 7

can stem cells be used to increase height?

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No: Once your growth centers close you have NO  potential to grow taller, short of having drastic surgery to stretch your legs (takes pain/years/dollars).Stem cells will never be used to open growth centers that close from hormonal influence.

Question 8

what are human embryonic stem cells used for?

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A this poitnt: Human embryonic stem cells are being studied to define stem cell biology and in animal models to look at tissue and organ repair.  This would be considered preclincial at this point, whcih is to say hes are not being used to treat human disease.

Question 9

what diseases have stem cell therapies treated?

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Stem Cell Therapy: There are currently *hundreds* of ongoing clinical trials for many disease indications. These include cardiac, vascular, ms, diabetes, parkinsons, brain lesion, wound care, autism, crohn's, kidney, liver, orthopedic, reconstruction,  fistula , arthritis, and others. Additionally, there are scores of offshore stem cell clinics offering experimental therapies.

Dr. Ricardo rodriguez.

Question 10

can stem cell research regrow a man's foreskin?

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Poss.could but won't: There are many much more important organs & tissues which require or have ongoing stem cell reasearch. Stem cells to restore foreskin, in my opinion, would be at bottom of list. Such researc h is very expensive, would never pay for itself nor would researchers undertake this work which they would consider frivolous &  unnecessary.

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