Therapeutic potential of different types of stem cells

Vinod Kumar Verma, Syed Sultan Beevi, Kanaka Bhushanam GVVS

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Vinod Kumar Verma^1,*, Syed Sultan Beevi¹ and Kanaka Bhushanam GVVS1

¹KIMS Foundation and Research Center, Minister’s Road, Secunderabad-500 003, Telangana, India

*Corresponding author: Dr. Vinod Kumar Verma, Department of Regenerative Medicine, KIMS Foundation and Research Center, Minister’s Road, Secunderabad-500 003, Telangana, India. Tel.: 040 4488 5058; Email: drvinodkumarverma14@gmail.com.

Received 18 June 2014; Revised 21 August 2014; Accepted 01 September 2014

Citation: Vinod Kumar V, Sultan Beevi S, Kanaka Bhushanam GVVS. Therapeutic potential of different types of stem cells. J Med Sci Res 2014; 2(4):209-214. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17727/JMSR.2014/2-037  

Copyright: © 2014 Vinod Kumar V, et al. Published by KIMS Foundation and Research Center. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Abstract

Stem cells are undifferentiated biological cells with the property of self-renewal, can transform into specialized cells and maintain the normal turnover of regenerative organs, such as blood, skin, or intestinal tissues. Stem cells have great possibility in the source of replacement of cells to manage various diseases, conditions, and disabilities such as, stroke, alzheimer’s, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), spinal cord injury, burns, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and some genetic disorders. Extensive research is required for better understanding to exploit stem cell is inherent property to cure many debilitating diseases and enhancing overall quality of life.

Keywords: Stem cells; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Somatic stem cells