Cell and gene therapy : Master 2 option immunology

Abstract

Cell therapy, often referred to as cellular therapy, cell transplantation, or cytotherapy, is a form of treatment in which a patient receives an injection, graft, or implant of live cells to produce a therapeutic effect. It entails either grafting stem cells to repair damaged tissues or transferring T cells that can kill cancer cells through cell-mediated immunity. Cell therapy has its roots in nineteenth- century experiments in which researchers injected animal material into patients to diagnose and treat disease. Even if these efforts had no beneficial results, Further investigations revealed that human cells could help prevent the body from rejecting transplanted organs in the middle of the 20th century. This discovery made successful bone marrow transplantation a common procedure in treating patients with compromised bone marrow due to illness, infection, radiation, or chemotherapy. Researchers have become more interested in stem cell and cell transplantation as a potential novel treatment approach for a variety of disorders, notably degenerative and immunogenic pathologies, in recent years.