tissue restoration Articles
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Cytokines: The Master Regulators of Immunity and Inflammation
Cytokines are a broad class of tiny proteins that are essential for controlling inflammation and immunological responses. Numerous cell types, including fibroblasts, endothelial cells, immunological cells, and epithelial cells, produce these signaling molecules. Serving as intermediaries, they synchronize various cell functions to elicit the body's defense mechanisms against infections, tissue ...
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Combatting the Opioid Crisis with Cell Therapies for Chronic Back Pain
It’s no secret that opioid addiction is at an all-time high and represents a major public health threat. The CDC estimates that opioid addiction resulted in a record 72,000 drug overdose deaths in 2017 alone. What strikes me as one of the most tragic parts of this narrative is that so many of these deaths were people who became addicted to opioids after simply seeking relief ...
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Prolotherapy and the Use of Sugars in Orthopedics
Prolotherapy has been a part of modern orthopedic practices since the 1940s. It is growing in popularity not just in the U.S., but globally as well. Also known as “regenerative injection therapy” (RIT), prolotherapy is a procedure used to treat musculoskeletal conditions including tendinopathies, osteoarthritis, and chronic pain of the cervical spine, lumbar spine, and pelvis (Sit et ...
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Understanding Lumbar Spinal Stenosis with Neurogenic Claudication
What is Lumbar Spinal Stenosis? Lumbar spinal stenosis, or LSS, is a common condition in which the lower spinal canal narrows and compresses the nerves in the lower back. Lumbar spinal stenosis is generally caused by aging and natural wear and tear on the spine. With lumbar spinal stenosis, thickened ligament, overgrowth of bone, and/or bulging discs in the lower back put pressure on the ...
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Oxygen therapy for rheumatology
HBOT is a very effective adjunctive treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis procedures Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disorder that can affect the lining of the joints and cause painful swelling that will result in the erosion of bones and the deformation of joints, which aggravated, leads to physical disabilities. As an autoimmune disorder, rheumatoid arthritis ...
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Creating a Natural Microenvironment for Culturing Islet Cells
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that leads to destruction of pancreatic islet cells. For many years, islet transplantation has been the focus of intense investigation as an insulin replacement therapy. Although transplantation immediately achieves insulin independence, the natural ability to continue producing insulin all but disappears 5 years later. There are many problems with ...
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Introducing CellQART Cell Culture Inserts: Giving New Life to Tissue Engineering
The new line of cellQART cell culture inserts, offered by Sterlitech, have important applications in medical science. Cell culture inserts have been used widely in tissue engineering because they allow access to both sides of the membrane. Each insert is designed to fit inside the well of a culture plate, making it more effective for growing 3D tissue layers than seeding cells directly on the ...
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Lower Extremity Amputations: Why, What Kind, & Life After
Every year, surgeons perform a lower-limb amputation due specifically to diabetes on approximately 73,000 patients in the US alone. Annually there are over 1 million limb amputations worldwide. Most of these amputations are performed for the treatment of non-healing diabetic foot ulcers that resulted from PAD (Peripheral Arterial Disease). These non-healing foot ulcers are caused by high blood ...
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