Advantages of skin stem cells

These stem cells have a renewal and repair function and replace defective cells. They are our spare parts store and in the case of injuries assure that healing takes place and the organ or cell structure goes back to carrying out its original function.

Embryonic stem cells, also pluripotent cells that develop in the early embryonic stadium into differentiated cells and organs of the developing human being, are not found in adults any more.

Stem cells from your own skin tissue have several advantages when compared with the stem cells from bone marrow, blood of the umbilical cord or peripheral blood that have been transplanted most frequently up until today:

Advantages skin stem cells

		The skin contains a higher number of valuable stem cells than blood or bone marrow.
		These valuable stem cells dispose of a high differentiation potential, which means they have not yet been determined with regard to their future form and may thereby be "programmed" into a multitude of cell types. The stem cells obtained by TICEBA therefore have a wider scope of possible fields of application.
		The valuable stem cells obtained by TICEBA are more easily grown, thereby making a higher number of stem cells available. This might enable more efficient treatment. However, this differs from one patient to the other.
		The skin as an organ is easily reached. The sampling of a small piece of skin is therefore uncomplicated and almost painless.
		Sampling may take place without any problem up to a high age.