Can someone explain stem cells?

Question

there is a product that increases your own stem cell release into your blood stream for use in your body.
Anyone taken this?
stem enhance

Answer 1

if we take a human as an example, after a child has been conceived the child grows inside the womb until it is born

when it is born it will have various organs such as skin, brain, bone etc

each of the cells in each organ are specific to that organ - so a brain cell is in the brain, a bone cell is in bone etc

however, at the time of conception the child is only a few unspecific cells - as the foetus grows into a baby the unspecific cells take on specific roles

stem cells are the unspecific cells that have not yet got a specific role in the body

Answer 2

"The defining properties of a stem cell are as follows:


1. It is not itself terminally differentiated (that is, it is not at the end of a pathway of differentiation).

2. It can divide without limit (or at least for the lifetime of the animal).

3. When it divides, each daughter has a choice: it can either remain a stem cell, or it can embark on a course that commits it to terminal differentiation.

Although it is part of the definition of a stem cell that it should be able to divide, it is not part of the definition that it should divide rapidly; in fact, stem cells usually divide at a relatively low rate. They are required wherever there is a recurring need to replace differentiated cells that cannot themselves divide, and this includes a great variety of tissues. Thus stem cells are of many types, specialized for the genesis of different classes of terminally differentiated cells;epidermal stem cells for epidermis, intestinal stem cells for intestinal epithelium, hemopoietic stem cells for blood, and so on."


"Embryonic stem cells (ES cells) are able to differentiate into any cell type in the body, and they can be induced to differentiate into many cell types in culture. Stem cells of some adult tissues, such as bone marrow, when placed in a suitable environment, seem able to generate a much wider range of differentiated cell types than they produce normally. These findings of stem-cell biology offer the hope of remedy for many serious diseases"

As far as the product is concerned no clue

Answer 3

stem cells can be found in our spinal cord or in the umbilical cord of newborns, didn't know there was a product that increased the release of stem cells to your blood, but I think that if this happens is for that this stem cells convert into leucocytes, this will help you destroy invasors in your blood stream and having a better health
stem cells don't have their function defined yet, they can become any cell in the whole body just by having them interact with some defined cells... so if you release stem cells into your blood stream they will interact with leucocytes and probably become one of them...

Answer 4

via the different solutions, i will see that maximum human beings dont' even understand what stem cells are or the place they arrive from. they arrive generally from fertility clinics, and we are no longer conversing a fetus; its a Blastocyst, no longer even linked to the uterine wall at this factor. Many blastocysts finally end up passing contained in direction of the lady's physique if the liner doens't produce an optimize ecosystem. we are no longer conversing a fetus however the 'embryo' this is fertilized in a petri dish. a lot of that are THROWN AWAY except the mummy and dad sign papers giving permission to be utilized in examine. there is no concepts, no palms, no coronary heart, no longer something yet cells. The Bible replaced into written in a time the place unborn toddlers have been the quantity of time a women knew she replaced into pregnant and exhibiting. The Bible additionally tells many memories the place God himself killed toddlers, or advised his human beings to slaughter toddlers. So i'm guessing if the blastocyst is an infidel, this must be ok.

Answer 5

"Stem cells have two important characteristics that distinguish them from other types of cells. First, they are unspecialized cells that renew themselves for long periods through cell division. The second is that under certain physiologic or experimental conditions, they can be induced to become cells with special functions such as the beating cells of the heart muscle or the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas."

"Scientists in many laboratories are trying to find ways to grow adult stem cells in cell culture and manipulate them to generate specific cell types so they can be used to treat injury or disease."

The link is to the article, everything you'd want to know about stem cells!

Great Question

Answer 6

stem cells r present in ur bone marrow.It functions in producing new RBC's as about millions RBC die every day, the stem cell makes 7times the RBC's died.So one should not be afraid while donating blood.

Answer 7

They are present in umbilical cord.they are very useful cells cancerous cells can be reenhanced by their use.

Answer 8

They are the cells that make up the stems of plants. Duh!