Stem Cell Therapy


Stem Cell Therapy
A stem cell is a cell with the unique ability to develop into specialized cell types in the body. In the future they may be used to replace cells and tissues that have been damaged or lost due to disease.

Embryonic stem cells
​Embryonic stem cells are obtained from the inner cell mass of the blastocyst, a mainly hollow ball of cells that, in the human, forms three to five days after an egg cell is fertilized by a sperm. In normal development, the cells inside the inner cell mass will give rise to the more specialized cells that give rise to the entire body—all of our tissues and organs. However, when scientists extract the inner cell mass and grow these cells in special laboratory conditions, they retain the properties of embryonic stem cells.  Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent, meaning they can give rise to every cell type in the fully formed body, but not the placenta and umbilical cord. These cells are incredibly valuable because they provide a renewable resource for studying normal development and disease, and for testing drugs and other therapies. Human embryonic stem cells have been derived primarily from blastocysts created by in vitro fertilization (IVF) for assisted reproduction that were no longer needed.





Tissue-specific stem cells
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Tissue-specific stem cells (also referred to as somatic or adult stem cells) are more specialized than embryonic stem cells. Typically, these stem cells can generate different cell types for the specific tissue or organ in which they live. For example, blood-forming (or hematopoietic) stem cells in the bone marrow can give rise to red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. However, blood-forming stem cells don’t generate liver or lung or brain cells, and stem cells in other tissues and organs don’t generate red or white blood cells or platelets. Some tissues and organs within your body contain small caches of tissue-specific stem cells whose job it is to replace cells from that tissue that are lost in normal day-to-day living or in injury, such as those in your skin, blood, and the lining of your gut.
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Induced pluripotent stem cells ( iPS)
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Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are cells that have been engineered in the lab by converting tissue-specific cells, such as skin cells, into cells that behave like embryonic stem cells. IPS cells are critical tools to help scientists learn more about normal development and disease onset and progression, and they are also useful for developing and testing new drugs and therapies. While iPS cells share many of the same characteristics of embryonic stem cells, including the ability to give rise to all the cell types in the body, they aren’t exactly the same. Scientists are exploring what these differences are and what they mean. For one thing, the first iPS cells were produced by using viruses to insert extra copies of genes into tissue-specific cells. Researchers are experimenting with many alternative ways to create iPS cells so that they can ultimately be used as a source of cells or tissues for medical treatments.







Mesenchymal Stem Cells ( MSC)

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are adult stem cells traditionally found in the bone marrow. However, mesenchymal stem cells can also be isolated from other tissues including cord blood, peripheral blood, adipose tissue and other tissues. MSCs typicallly differentiate to form adipocytes, cartilage, bone, tendons, muscle, and skin (mesodermal tissues) . 
Morphologically, mesenchymal stem cells have long thin cell bodies (spindle-shaped) with a large nucleus. As with other stem cell types, MSCs have a high capacity for self renewal while maintaining multipotency. Thus, mesenchymal stem cells have enormous therapeutic potential for tissue repair.  In the last few years the immunomodulatory and neuoroprotective properties of MSC were discovered. These discoveries make MSC good candidate to act as therapeutic agents in diseases such Multiple Sclerosis and other neurological diseases.  








Ongoing or completed numerous research involving mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC), represent promising alternatives for conventional treatments for various non-cancerous medical disorders. ECCT offers Stem Cell Transplantation for patients with various cancerous diseases such as Leukemia, Hodgkin and Non– Hodgkin lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma, Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Aplastic Anemia. ECCT is highly specialized in Mesenchymal Stem Cell therapy and can offer promising therapeutic alternatives for diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis and Amytotrphic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) which are neurodegenrative diseases.


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