CELL THERAPY
THE MOST AMAZING OF CELL THERAPY Dating back to 1552 B.C., Cell Therapy has been around for thousands of years, where the preparations of animal organs for medicinal purposes have already been documented in the Eber Papyrus, the oldest preserved medical document. Aristotle, in the Middle Ages, has mentioned the therapeutic use of animal organs several times in the Materia Medica. And in the 16th century a famous philosopher, Paracelsus, established the fundamental principle of Cellular Therapy – ‘Similia Similibus Curantur’or ‘Like Treats Like’. This principle delineates the treatment of specific organs with the implantation of cells or tissues sourced from the corresponding organ. Moreover, all biological systems in nature are composed of the same types of molecules. Great majority of proteins from different organisms, including man, are similar over the entire amino acid sequence, i.e. they are homologous of each other and in general carry out similar functions. The homologous p