Cord Blood Stem Cell Therapy For Erectile Dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction is the inability to achieve or maintain penile erection hence affecting male sexual performance. Though various remedies have been invented like enzyme inhibitors, penile exercises, and chemotherapies; these remedies are not effective to all individuals. Hence, scientists have devised a medical way to treat erectile dysfunction using cord blood stem cells gene therapy. |
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Causes of Erectile Dysfunction :
Erectile dysfunction is preventable disease. It is caused by death or malfunctioning of the penile tissues. Kidney diseases, chronic alcoholism, atherosclerosis, vascular disease, diabetes, and multiple sclerosis are the medical conditions that highly cause this health problem. However, some medications, risky lifestyle, injuries cause reduced nerve impulses transmission in the nervous system hence affecting the penile muscles. This causes deoxygenating of the penile tissues due to blockage of blood vessels replenishing the penile tissues.
Though a heated debate rose on use of stem cells in treatment of chronic and hereditary diseases, the new technique involves the use of engineered therapeutic genes to fit individual genetic characteristics. Various treatments for erectile dysfunction failed due to complications on diabetic, prostate cancer and high-sensitivity to diseases.
How cord blood stem cells therapy functions? :
Cord blood stem cell therapy for erectile dysfunction involves insertion of the synthetic stem cells in the affected parts to produce new blood vessels in the de-oxygenated tissues. Studies show that the technique has benefited treatment of cardiac arrests and gangrene hence effective on erectile dysfunction.
As the blood vessels thickened due to adipose tissue deposition, the stem cells therapy includes excision on the adipose tissue through surgery. The genes stimulate ion exchange within the penile muscles, hence regeneration erection. Though surgeries and therapies have proved a proper medication for erectile dysfunction, cord blood stem cell therapy, which is still under clinical trials, will end erectile dysfunction.
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