What is somatic cell therapy?
Somatic cell therapy is a method of using mature cells in vivo for treatment. Its principle is to take out the patient's somatic cells, and after a series of treatments, reinject them into the patient's body to achieve the purpose of treatment. This treatment can be used to treat many diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, nervous system diseases, liver diseases and so on.
Operation steps of somatic cell therapy
The operation steps of somatic cell therapy are generally divided into the following steps:
1. Cell collection: First, a certain number of somatic cells need to be collected from patients. These cells can come from skin, blood, bone marrow and other tissues.
2. Cell processing: The collected somatic cells need to go through a series of processing, including cell culture, amplification, identification and other steps. These treatments can increase the number of cells and ensure cell quality.
3. Cell injection: The treated cells need to be reinjected into the patient. This process is usually carried out in the operating room, and it needs some steps such as anesthesia and disinfection.
Advantages of somatic cell therapy
Somatic cell therapy has many advantages over traditional treatment methods:
1. Individualized therapy: Somatic cell therapy can treat patients according to their specific conditions, so it can realize individualized treatment and improve the therapeutic effect.
2. Low risk: Since somatic cell therapy uses the patient's own cells for treatment, there is no risk of rejection.
3. Long-term effect: Somatic cell therapy can maintain the therapeutic effect for a long time, and there will be no short-term effective treatment, but the condition will be repeated afterwards.