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Armed Forces Medical College begins Stem Cell Therapy

Armed Forces Medical College begins Stem Cell Therapy

Pune: In a significant boost to stem cell research, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has identified five centers in the country to look at the effect of stem cells on regenerating dead cardiac muscles after an heart attack.

Vice-Admiral V.K. Singh, Director General of Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS), who feels that the future human survival rests on stem cell therapy, has also announced that the Military Hospital-Cardio Thoracic Centre (MH-CTC) has now initiated the stem cell therapy on two patients with acute myocardial infraction.

Even as All India Institute of Medical Institute of Medical Sciences ( AIIMS), New Delhi, Pioneered the treatment of heart problems using stem cells in the country, now for the first time in Pune, the Armed Forces Medical College has initiated the stem cell therapy at the MH-CTC.

Stem cells can act as a repair system for the body replenishing lost or damaged specialized cells. They can be readily grown and transformed into specialized tissues such as muscles or nerves through cell culture and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the DBT are already involved in research projects in embryonic stem cells.

In fact, Asia’s largest stem cell research centre is set to come up at the AFMC. The procedure involves injecting stem cells into the artery leading to the diseased organ

The regenerative cells are delivered to the affected area initiating the process of repair and growth of healthy cells. AFMC Commandant Lt. Gen S.K. Kaul told media persons on Monday that the procedure was initiated in two patients at MH-CTC earlier this month.

The stem cells were harvested from the patients’ bone marrow, processed at the Department of Blood Transfusion at AFMC and then administered to the patients.

While the team of cardiologists at MH-CTC will follow up with the treatment, the DGAFMS pointed out that five centres – AIIMS, and Referral) New Delhi, PGI Chandigarh, Sanjay Gandhi Institute at Lucknow –would be involved in the project to look at the effect of stem cells on regenerating dead cardiac muscles after an heart attack.

What is Stem cell therapy?

Stem cells can act as a repair system for the body replenishing lost or damaged specialized cells.

They can be readily grown and transformed into specialized tissues such as muscles or nerves through cell culture

The procedure involved injecting stem cells into the artery leading to the diseased organ

The regenerative cells are delivered to the affected area initiating the process of repair and re-growth of healthy cells

Armed Forces Medical College begins Stem Cell Therapy

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