What Is Cell Therapy?

Cell Therapy is a complicated therapeutic methodology in which animal or human cells are transplanted in order to replace or repair damage tissues or cells.

However, it reflects an implication for modern technology, but the conceptualization of this therapy is as old as the time of Phillippus Aureolus Paracelsus (1493 – 1541), a German-Swiss physician and alchemist. He postulated that the 'like cures like' and explained that to use the living tissue to restore the illness would be the best method to employ. The first attempt of cell therapy was recorded in 1912 when German doctors tried to replace the thyroid tissue of a child suffering from hypothyroidism.

A recent research in this area covers various critical aspects treating with the application of cell therapy. Cell therapy has successfully intervened with the problems like damaged cartilage, spinal chord injury, weak immune system, AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, arteriosclerosis, congenital defects, sexual dysfunction, cancer as well as critical heart disease.

The common side-effects may include anaphylactic shock, immune system reaction, encephalitis, etc.