Why use regenerative medicine when traditional medicine is available?

• Traditional medicine can result in a less efficient healing of the injured tissue and there is always the risk of re-injury. On the other hand, regenerative medicine focuses on the regeneration of the affected tissue or organ by using the patient's own cells.
• Traditional medicine is unable to intervene in a meaningful way to prevent formation of scar tissues. Regenerative medicine offers the possibility of remodeling scar tissues that might form as part of the natural healing process, thereby supporting formation of more normal tissue.
• In the case of regenerative medicine, therapeutic activity is multidirectional and is not dependent on a single pathway or receptor.
• Stem cells can differentiate into multiple cell types, so the same therapy can be used to take care of multiple problems.
• Isolated stem cells can be delivered directly to the injured site as is the case in tendonitis, fracture etc., or can be delivered intravenously in the case of liver and renal diseases.
• Stem cells can communicate with the local environment via the paracrine ( biochemical factors) and the endocrine systems that promote healing.

Why use adipose-derived regenerative cells?

• Abundant and easily accessible.
• Over 10 times more cells can be collected from adipose tissue than from bone marrow.
• Can differentiate towards osteogenic, myogenic and chondrogenic cell lineages when exposed to various lineage-specific factors. This property makes them important in repair of the bone, cardiac tissue and cartilage.
• The regenerative cells derived from adipose tissue lack the ethical controversy that is usually associated with embryonic stem cells.

• Mesenchymal stem cells
• Growth factor producing cells
• Endothelial progenitor cells
• Pericytes
• Fibroblasts
• Immune cell