What is kidney disease? Kidney disease occurs when your kidneys are damaged and no longer work as they should. Normal, healthy kidneys remove waste from the blood. The waste is filtered out from your body by your urine. The kidneys also help control blood pressure and make red blood cells. After getting kidney disease, your kidneys cannot remove waste from the blood as they should. If the kidney disease can not be controlled well, it will progress into renal failure gradually.How to treat kidney disease? Which kind of method are the most effective way to treat kidney disease?
The traditional treatment methods are dialysis and kidney transplant. But dialysis exist various complications, is only the replacement of filtered function, and can’t complete a series of other important renal functions, such as secretion, metabolism, and maintain internal environment balance, etc. therefore, quality of care is low for the patient with dialysis.
Kidney transplant is the replacement of the renal function completely. As kidney donors are short, immunosuppressive agent has big side-effect, and operation has complications, etc. the development of kidney transplant is under restriction.
In recent years, treating kidney disease with stem cell becomes more and more popular. Stem cell is a kind of undifferentiated cells, possessing with self-renewal, multi-differentiation, and highly proliferated function. Stem cell from bone marrow has the potential of multi-differentiation. It can not only differentiate into histiocyte of the local germ layer, but also differentiate into histiocyte of other germ layer. Cord blood stem cell has stronger proliferated and differentiated capacity than stem cell from bone marrow.
Resent years, the researches showed that, bone marrow stem cell has capacity of differentiation into renal parenchymal cell, and can differentiate into various renal cells, such as mesangial cell J, epithelial cell, sertoli cell and endothelial cell, etc. which can selectively repair part of glomerular tubules in the outer medulla, recover renal tubule structure and function. So, it proved that bone marrow stem cell has characteristics of differentiation to renal tissue and vessels, and can help repair and regenerate damaged kidney, so as to solve glomerular damage, glomerular tubule damage, and kidney disease.
So, experts said that, during kidney transplant treatment, the shortage of kidney source restricts the development of kidney transplant treatment. Stem cell treatment might become one important measure to solve treating effects of kidney transplant, and renal replacement therapy.
If you want to understand more about stem cells transplant for kidney disease, you can take a look at this site:http://www.kidneycn.com/ or http://www.stemcellskidney.com/
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