Corpus Christi Regenerative Therapy

07/13/2021

This is a great overview of the direction regenerative therapy is heading.

Placental structures, capable to persist in a genetically foreign organism, are a natural model of allogeneic engraftment carrying a number of distinctive properties. In this review, the main features of the placenta and its derivatives such as structure, ...

04/15/2021

We have a terrific new website!

If you or a loved one suffers from an inflammatory condition, adult stem cell therapy may be worth considering. This latest technique can help restore one’s quality of life to an unexpected level after treatment.

03/03/2021

ALS a fatal neurodegenerative disease. Although experimental, there is evidence that stem cell therapy may offer hope.

With emerging evidence on the importance of non-cell autonomous toxicity in neurodegenerative diseases, therapeutic strategies targeting modulation of key immune cells. including microglia and Treg cells, have been designed for treatment of ALS and other ...

02/10/2021

This is very encouraging! Stem Cell therapy is in it's infancy. The research we have for autism spectrum disorders is difficult to find even in animal models.

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are characterized by core domains: persistent deficits in social communication and interaction; restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities. ASDs comprise heterogeneous and complex neurodevelopmental ...

02/01/2021

This is a good overview of what microneedling is and other general information.

We combine your own PRP (obtained from a simple blood draw) to enhance your bodies ability to heal. More about that later 😁

Call me for more information or about scheduling your PRP microneedling facial.

Considering microneedling? Learn how it’s done, health risks, safety tips, and how to take care of your skin afterward.

05/03/2019

Your Personal Fountain of Youth
February 26, 2019 Dr. Mohammad Emran
We all have adult stem cells that can be harvested, concentrated, activated and transplanted to an area of need.

By: Dr. Mohammad Emran



When your car breaks down, it can be a big problem. How do you get to work? Who picks up the kids or grandkids? How do you get it to the shop? What are the best parts to use? When your house is damaged, as many of us experienced in the hurricanes these past years, the problem can be even bigger. Materials get pricey, and the cost of repairs goes way up. In the meantime, we are left trying to find a place to stay and hustling to shore up the house against further damage.

What happens when we break down or have damage to our bodies? What happens when we get conditions that no doctor can treat and that modern medicine has no drugs for? What happens if there are no good solutions? What happens when our only option is to start replacing parts?

Your knees go out, you have horrible pain and you start limping around. Maybe you gain some weight and start on a downward spiral of pain, immobility, weight gain, more pain, less mobility and worse health. The advice you get is to exercise and lose weight, but you can’t! The pain gets so bad that now we are looking at knee replacement, a costly, painful operation that for many people has become a lifesaver. This seems to be the only option.

This same scenario can be repeated for a number of conditions with little to no good options for treatment. How about fibromyalgia, headaches and any of the other problems where only the symptoms are covered up and the problem is not truly fixed? What hope have you got to get better other than expensive surgeries or medications that have a mile-long list of warnings and side effects and a price to break the bank? There was a glimmer of hope back in the early 2000s, but many of us lost track of what has happened since.

Back in the 2000s, there was a big buzz about the possibility of stem cells being a way for the body to heal. This was overshadowed by the controversy and debate about the ethics of embryonic stem cells. At the time, the claim was stopping embryonic research would kill the path of discovery and put us years behind. But God doesn’t close one door without opening another.

As embryonic stem cell research met more difficulties and restrictions, jump forward 10 to 15 years, and stem cell research has not only continued, but given some surprising possibilities. What researchers around the world in places such as Cleveland Clinic, Moffitt Cancer Center and UCLA in the United States, along with many other nations including India, Korea, Brazil, Canada and Japan, began to discover is that each and every one of us as adults not only have stem cells, but we have a lot of them. These can be harvested, concentrated, activated and moved to the area of greatest need.

Although considered investigational, the harvesting of stem cells and transplantation has been done successfully in many cases for conditions such as:

• Migraines
• Psoriasis
• Fibromyalgia
• Multiple sclerosis
• Alzheimer’s
• Parkinson’s
• Cirrhosis
• COPD
• Emphysema
• Diabetes
• Damaged heart muscle

For years, the only stem cell therapy available was bone marrow transplantation after chemotherapy. Now a few other therapies have become available, and the beauty is those cells can even come from you! Your own stem cells can be harvested, activated and freed to travel to where they are most needed. Seemingly limitless ability to heal from disease is at our fingertips, being developed every day.

Numerous autologous (from your own body) stem cell therapies have been entered into clinical trials throughout the world. A quick search on ClinicalTrials.gov revealed more than 1,600 studies involving autologous stem cell therapy. Many of these studies are showing the use of autologous stem cell therapies to be safe and practical in an array of models.

There are still ethical questions outstanding and technical hurdles to make the therapies more consistent and more successful. There is a long way to go before stem cell therapy is accepted and offered everywhere, and before we know the true extent of benefits and risks. However, for those with immediate needs and no other good options, autologous stem cell transplantation may offer a quick method to stimulate the body to begin healing itself.

Articles of Interest

Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine
DOI: 10.1159/000448180

Safety Analysis of Autologous Stem Cell Therapy in a Variety of Degenerative Diseases and Injuries Using the Stromal Vascular Fraction
DOI: 14740/jocmr3187w



Mohammad Emran, M.D., is a local pediatric and general surgeon, best-selling author, public speaker, educator, weight-loss expert and medical director of Corpus Christi Regenerative Therapy. For more information, contact Lorraine Antoni at Corpus Christi Regenerative Therapy: 361-854-0545.

04/10/2019

What About Stem Cells?

Stem cells are building and restorative cells responsible for all healing.

By: Lorraine Antoni, RN, MSN, WCC, NNP-BC, FNP-C

The human body is a remarkable machine. Tissue healing and regeneration are among our body’s specialized processes that allow us to both survive and thrive. Stem cells are the unique cells present in body tissues that are responsible for growth and repair. There are remarkable characteristics that distinguish stem cells from other cells. Stem cells are regenerative cells that have the incredible ability to make exact copies of themselves (self-renewal) and remain a stem cell or change (differentiate) into different, specialized cell types. Stem cells are able to continue to divide and replace damaged cells for as long as the body lives. Other cells can only duplicate themselves for a limited time before cell death occurs.

There are several types of stem cells. Stem cells can be classified according to their ability to change into specialized cells or by their origin. Embryonic stem cells are present in embryos that are just a few days old. These stem cells are called pluripotent because they are able to divide into more stem cells or become any type of cell in the body. Embryonic stem cells are responsible for growth. They change into the many specialized cell types that eventually mature into the whole organism. Perinatal stem cells are stem cells found in amniotic fluid surrounding a growing fetus, the placenta and in umbilical cord blood. Adult stem cells (including those found in infants and children) are those stem cells located in blood and tissues such as bone, bone marrow, fat, nerve tissue, heart and other organ tissues. These stem cells are considered multipotent meaning that they differentiate into the same type of cells from their tissue of origin. Maintenance and healing are the main roles of adult stem cells. As the body ages or is injured, adult stem cells replace worn or damaged cells.

In recent years, the regenerative characteristics of stem cells have been the center of worldwide publicity and study. In regenerative medicine, stem cells and growth factors are used to stimulate the body to repair tissue damage or loss of function due to declining age, chronic disease or injury. Stem cell research is growing and expanding in a multitude of directions.

Although surrounded by controversy, research involving embryotic stem cells has been promising. Donated embryos have been used to develop particular stem cell lines which can produce many different human tissues. These lab-produced stem cell cultures can be grown indefinitely from a single embryo. There is potential for treating many disease processes.

Induced pluripotent stem cells are adult cells that are genetically reprogrammed in the laboratory to behave like embryonic stem cells. This means that like embryotic stem cells, the induced pluripotent stem cells can change into any cell type in the body. Another attractive aspect is that the controversy over using embryos is removed. Induced pluripotent stem cells are currently being used to test new drugs.

The therapeutic use of adult stem cell therapy has been another focus of study. Adult stem cells are easily harvested from bone marrow, blood and adipose tissue. The stem cells are isolated and then returned to the patient by transplant. Adult stem cells have played an important role in medicine for decades. Adult stem cells derived from bone marrow or blood are commonly transplanted to restore the damaged bone marrow in some cancer patients and those with certain blood-related diseases. These stem cells replace and replenish cells damaged by chemotherapy, radiation or disease. They help to restore the body’s immune system.

In addition to treating patients with certain cancers, there are a wide range of other conditions being aided by adult stem cell therapies. These stem cell therapies are considered experimental and are not the standard of care. Adult stem cell therapy is being investigated for the treatment of neurologic conditions, osteoarthritis and other musculoskeletal abnormalities, autoimmune disease, cardiac, kidney and liver disease, chronic inflammatory diseases and many more.

For more information, contact Lorraine Antoni at Corpus Christi Regenerative Therapy, 361-854-0545.

11/05/2018

Please drop by our open house 🏡 tomorrow and learn more about cell therapy 💉❤️