Liposuction has become a way to stock up on stem cells

Adult patients can now receive a double benefit from liposuction - not just to get rid of unwanted body fat, but also stocking stem cells. After all, in the fat cells contain more data than any other body tissues.

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Using stem cells   to treat all sorts of diseases is relatively little known, new but very promising direction. Today, the vast majority of scientists no doubt that stem cells   will be in the near future by a separate direction in medicine. And many patients are stocking up in advance by such cells. Parents, for example, keep the cord blood of their children in the event that if they ever need the stem cells.

But what to do if you already far beyond 20 and 30 and your mother when you were born, had no idea about stem cells? An excellent source of them is a fat man. And there will extract cells procedure Liposuction . A growing number of patients pass through the West liposuction   not only to get rid of excess fat, but also to stock up cells that may someday save their lives.

The more that scientists at the University of California recently found out: in the fat contained embrionicheskie stem cells - the most versatile of all. They have the capacity to become any tissue in the body. Theoretically, they can be grown from kidney, liver, pancreas and other organs.

Some parts of the body, scientists already know how to obtain stem cells, some have yet to learn how to produce. In any case, the stock's own cells for the future, and along with the correct figure does not seem such a bad idea. (READ MORE)

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