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The entire world is losing to a tiny microscopic creature, the new coronavirus. It is destroying the pride of human civilization and science. There is no medicine, there is no antidote. Just waiting for death. Scientists are working to develop a drug or vaccine. I still haven’t seen the face of success. Since no specific drugs have been discovered, experiments with various drugs are underway. Plasma therapy, hydrochloroquine, remedivir, AIDS drugs, and flu drugs have been rolled out at different times. The latest addition to this list is ‘Stem Cell Therapy’. However, clinical trials have yet to confirm any of this.
This time, the new direction of Kavid-19 treatment is called ‘stem cell therapy’. Meanwhile, 6 Kavid patients have survived using this method. 7 of them are from Israel. An American resident. From the lungs of these 6 Kavid-19 victims to death, the heart, kidneys and liver were almost useless. There was no response to conventional treatment. As a last resort, they receive special stem cells collected from the maternal mother’s placenta. In medical terms, it is called “expanded cellular allogeneic placental pluristemus” or “PLX cell”. This time the work is like magic.
What is stem cell therapy?
According to Amitabh Nandi, a renowned infectious disease specialist and virologist in India, ‘the placenta that leaves the mother’s body after delivery contains all of these stem cells. Scientists take cells from here and turn them into smart cells. Programming is done in such a way that the cell that enters the body, understands the body’s needs, will secrete medications and proteins exactly according to their size. This is basically stem cell therapy.
How does it work
According to Amitabh Nandi, when the amount of the virus is too high, the body’s immune system sometimes becomes very active in trying to destroy it. As a result, large amounts of cytokine chemicals, called cytokine storms, begin to flow. Some of these chemicals do a lot of damage to the lungs by causing inflammation. As a result, the oxygen supply decreases and all vital organs become useless. A multi-organ failure occurs. The patient passed away. When programmed cells enter the body through injection, they make proteins or drugs inside the body. Medications are two types of protein. Reduces inflammation. Another overdose puts the immune system under control. This is called ‘immune modulation’. As a result, the amount of oxygen is back under control. The incidence of inflammation begins to decrease. The disabled limbs regain their functionality. However, only the initial steps in this stem cell test have been completed. The response was good. Many more stages remain. Only then will it be understood whether this stem cell therapy against Kavid-19 can become a global solution.
The procedure was performed on seven patients from Israel and the United States by scientists at Cell Therapy Pluristem Therapeutics from Israel. “These stem cells or PLX cells can enter the body and produce drugs from protein in the same dose as normal drugs,” Yaki Yanana, the company’s director, told the media.
Doctors hope that ‘stem cell therapy’ can be an effective weapon in the fight against the coronavirus. On Friday, the regenerative medicine company Mesoblast announced testing of the therapy in 300 Kavid-19 patients with severe pneumonia. The purpose of this test is to determine how stem cell therapy works in Kavid-19 patients.
Source: WLNS, Anandabazar.
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