Stem Cells

Therapeutic use of stem cells

Dana Kenanah & Leen Abu Saif

What stem cell transplants are used
for:
● Healthy stem cells are put into your bone marrow or
blood during a bone marrow/stem cell transplant
treatment.

● Your body's ability to produce the necessary amounts

of platelets, white blood cells, and red blood cells is
restored as a result.

● Bone marrow transplant has been used successfully to

treat diseases such as leukaemia.
 The type of stem cell used in the
transplant:
● Hematopoietic stem cells are stem cells that turn
into blood cells.

● Bone marrow contains hematopoietic stem cells. It

is found in the centre of most bones.
The result of the treatment:
However there are some risks:
A bone marrow transplant replaces your
damaged stem cells with healthy cells. ● Having a bone marrow transplant while
you're an adult and using less suitable
● Helps your body make enough white donors is risky and can even cause
blood cells, platelets, or red blood cells death. Yet, when the donor is related
to avoid infections, bleeding disorders, and matched, they are successful in
or anaemia.  roughly 90% of children.
The costs involved:
• The remission induction cost: $46,387
• Harvest of bone marrow: $6,491
• Transplant: $25,531 - $44,087
What is leukemia?

Leukemia is defined as the cancer of blood and bone marrow,

abnormal cells start to grow uncontrollably in the bone marrow of
bone, then these cells start to flow in the bloodstream. There would
be too many white blood cells which are called leukocytes and they
would produce rapidly, the undeveloped cells in most serious types of
leukemia are known as blasts, but because the leukemic blasts don't
develop and mature, they are unable to implement the functions of a
normal developed cell, which include defending the body against any
disease or infection.
 The ethics involved in the use of the
specified stem cells

• As well as bringing hope for new treatments for conditions like diabetes, spinal cord
injury, and Parkinson's disease, stem cell research has great potentials for figuring out the
basic concept of human development and differentiation.

• However, human stem cell research also raises sharp ethical and political controversies:
• Because collecting the stem cells results in the loss of the blastocyst, which is the early
stage of an embryo, critics claim that the research is unethical.
Thank You!
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