The essence of cell and tissue therapy lies in the active replacement and stimulation of influences on functionally defective cells and tissues in separate organs and systems, stimulation of the reparative and metabolic processes, immunological correction and stimulation.
The basis of the preparation production developed by us , cryogenic preservation, and treatment technologies lies the notion of the necessity of vitality preservation by biological objects, i.e. their ability to function after the unfreezing and introduction which ensures effective clinical results. The vital biological materials whose activity mechanisms are based on the preservation of a cells full value after thawing and the presence of metabolically active materials of natural origin possessing a poly-pharmacological effect of specific and non-specific direction. Along with the introduction of living cells, capable of proliferation, special attention should be paid to the application of sub-cellular extracts of embryonic and feto-placental origin. Naturally, there is a substantial difference between biological effects after introduction of living and not living fetal cells, as with the introduction of initial biological material and cells grown in culture. One of the advantages of the use of cell and tissue biological preparations is that the patient receives a number of biologically active balanced compounds of natural origin which are capable of influencing different sides of an integral organism's metabolism and also the cells ability to perform replacing functions.
Recently, it has become more and more obvious a fact that pharmacological drugs that have been anticipated for the development of new biochemical technologies, seldom justified those hopes especially in the cases of long-term diseases and auto-immune conditions, of metabolism disorders and a number of other pathologies. Cells and tissues of embryonic and fetal origin and also of cord blood were historically used as stimulators back in ancient times, and in the beginning of our century for rejuvenation and treatment of endocrine and hemopoietic diseases. This method was known in medicine as the "Brown-Sequard method'' according to the last name of its developer. Basically these were tissues of animal origin or cadaver tissues and their fragments. Successes in their application was not as significant as what could be expected in accordance with its theoretical preconditions. That is why these methods remained more of a possession of medical history rather than having found an appropriate place within the treatment of different disease complexes.
The development of the biological sciences, the broadening of our knowledge within the field of cell biology and its functional properties, as well as the development of methods for long-term storage, allowed researchers and clinicians to move on to a new, higher level of evaluation of stem cell and tissue preparations' potential abilities for the therapy of many complicated diseases.
It is considered proven that embryonic stem cells possess a higher plasticity, they are able to withstand differentiation depending on the microenvironment, and at the same time their proliferation tempo is significantly higher than that of mature cells. Large quantities of growth factors, such as a fibroblasts' growth factor, nerves' growth factor, the factors stimulating the growth of macrophage and erythroid colonies as well as anti-proliferative cytokines preventing hyper-stimulation are present in embryonic, placental and fetal tissues.
Upon introduction of these preparations made of embryonic and fetal tissues, cells and their associates practically do not cause the immune reaction of rejection as in the 1st trimester of development the proteins of the 2nd histocompatibility class are not expressed upon them. The peculiarity of an embryonic stem cells' metabolism, which consists of the use of the glycolytic pathway, ensures them a higher resistance to various harmful factors, which accompany the process of extraction and low-temperature preservation.
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