Bone Marrow Stem Cells Offer Skin Regeneration

Posted by Aileen on Apr 12 2009 | Informaiton, Real-life, Techniques

skincareGone are te days of pig skin grafts for people who suffer trauma such as accidents and burns that used to be sure ways for one to get ugly scar tissue for researchers have found that bone marrow stem cells are making the healing process faster and better than traditional skin graft methods. The procedure normally had the person’s own skin stretched onto the gaping skin wounds, cut from other less obvious parts of the body. The new research has pig skin treated with the person’s own skin cells then augmented with bone marrow stem cells allowing faster and better healing. Once the skin has begun to grow, it is then grafted onto the person without the pig skin allowing growth of the natural skin without using the pig skin as a substrate making the grafted skin good as new.
Stem cells, the human body’s super cells have the ability to turn into any of the millions of types of cells in the human body that once stimulated by skin cells to grow into similar form, generates at a faster rate than skin grafts that entailed the lifelong intake of anti-rejection drugs and antibiotics to ward of rejection and infection. The regenerated skin is similar to the patient’s skin in many ways lessening the need for maintenance drugs till the skin covers the whole area.

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