Regenerative Medicine is the branch of the medicine that develops methods to regrow, repair or replace damaged or diseased cells, tissues or organs. This field holds the promise that damaged tissues and organs can be regenerated in the body by removing damaged tissue or by activating the body’s own repair mechanisms for healing tissues or organs. Regenerative medicine can also enable scientists to develop tissues and organs in the laboratory, and to implant them safely when the body can not repair itself.

Stem Cells

Currently, regenerative medicine includes many clinical therapies and biomedical approaches that involve use of stem cells. Methods include cell therapies (injection of stem cells or progenitor cells); immunomodulatory therapy (regeneration by biologically active molecules delivered alone or as secretions by infused cells); and tissue engineering (transplantation of laboratory developed organs and tissues). Recent developments in our basic knowledge of tissue damage and regeneration involving pathogenesis and histogenesis have coupled with impressive development in stem cell biology so that the promise of therapeutic tissue repair strategies is a tangible fact. Examples include injection of stem cells or progenitor cells; induction of regeneration by biologically active molecules or inductive scaffolds delivered by infused cells alone or as a secretion; immunomodulation of the scarring response; and transplantation of organs and tissues developed in vitro.

Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

Through injecting engineered tissue into injury areas, doctors are giving the body a scaffold from which to rebuild new tissue where it would not otherwise be able to.

Rich-plasma platelet

Rich plasma platelet is a solution that concentrates blood platelets by eliminating red blood cells, leaving behind platelets that contain a large amount of growth factors used to promote tissue growth.

Prolotherapeutics

Short for proliferation therapy, this is a therapeutic technique involving injections at the injury site that activates the body’s own natural healing mechanism, causing weakened or exhausted tissues to regenerate.

Together these treatments include cancer, diabetes, HIV and AIDS disorders, congenital conditions, serious accidents and a wide range of other diseases.

Regenerative medicine has long entered clinical practice using products that can help in the healing process by introducing growth factors and cytokines back into the weakened tissue ( e.g., (chronic) healing of wounds). When the field expands and new technologies are being studied, the areas of regenerative medicine and cellular therapy will continue to fuse and grow, eventually curing other disease problems and improving health for a range of diseases and health conditions.