Stem cell & their role in Diabetes

Eakta Kandpal*, Aman Mittal

Department of Pharmacy, Smt. Tarawati Institute of Biomedical & Allied Sciences, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

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Eakta Kandpal, Aman Mittal, 2016. Stem cell & their role in Diabetes. Journal of medical pharmaceutical and allied sciences, V 5 - I 2, Pages -321 – 324. Doi: https://doi.org/10.55522/jmpas.V5I2.0084.

ABSTRACT

Stem cell therapy is miraculous research in the field of medical sciences. It is very useful in future for the treatment of various diseases. According to recent stem cell studies, stem cell can cure many life threatening diseases (such as diabetes, cancer, brain diseases, HIV etc.).[1,2]Stem cell have two specific property one is differentiated into different body cells and another is regenerate the damaged tissue or organ. These properties of stem cell are basically used in the therapy of various diseases, also in treatment of diabetes. Stem cells are obtained from different sources (bone marrow, embryo, skin stem cells etc.). In diabetes stem cell regenerate the damaged Beta cells present in islets of langerhans of pancreas and helps in to cure diabetes. In present time stem cell therapy decreases the uses of anti-diabetic drugs in many patients. In future this therapy will widely use for treatment of various diseases including diabetes.

Keywords:

Stem Cell; Anti-Diabetic Drugs; Langerhans of Pancreas; Diabetes.

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