Why don’t the stem cells work after being released into our blood for say, liver or pancreatic diseases? Why are they not able to find the places to be utilized without removing them and injecting them back into the body?
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It sounds to me like you’re asking about the details and reasoning for a specific medical procedure, but you aren’t naming what that procedure is. That makes the details harder to say if we don’t know them, but I’ll do my best.
There are a lot of different types of cancer treatment, or reasons to harvest stem cells.
To explain what you’re asking, we need to know what granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) drugs even are: G-CSF drugs are the ones that cause your bones to make granulocytes. What are granulocytes? They are a type of immune system cell. They’re cells that do jobs for the immune system to fight off diseases and invaders. That is why they are in the blood.
G-CSF drugs also cause stem cells to be released into the blood stream. The stem cells are in the blood because if you have a wound, stem cells are needed to regrow the wounded tissue. The wound causes blood to fill the area, and that blood carries the stem cells with it.
It’s part of a common wound-response system. A wound might bring germs into the blood, and also require repair.
So then if we want to harvest stem cells for a specific medical procedure, we can use the G-CSF drugs to make your bones release stem cells. If you want more details, I’d have to know what medical procedure you are talking about.
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