Stem Cells & Muscle Growth-The new AAS?

[RicPhoenix]

If stem cell technology can be used to grow new teeth can it be used to grow muscle or strengthen tendons ? Is this going to be a new wave of performance enhancement in competitive sport?


Imagine injecting stem cells that have been pre-coded to grow into skelatel muscle tissue into biceps, quads, pecs, lats...then having new muscle (uh..with no gym work..LOL).

oh wait...dont forget..growing some CALVES !

 

[weight77]

I have done alot of reading about stem cells. Not for bodybuild but for school. It is still in the beginning stages. They have done several heart procedures with stem cells but I do not think they are looking into this for reproduction. And if it were it would be only for patients suffering from some type of desiese. The stem cells would also have to be from a matching muscle. They stem cells may or may not take on the original form of the muscle. So in other words you could be left with a weird shapped muscle. Like quad could have muscle grwoing out of the side instead of sweeping across like normal.

 

[RicPhoenix]

Ok did not know that...but they have used stem cells to grow new teeth.

A new breakthough in a British lab has announced that they have successfully had old people GROW new teeth instead of using dentures. This made the news here in Australia. They are predicting that dentures will be a thing of the past in 5 years.

ps...I thought that stem cells were coded for ANY tissue that they want to grow and that they were taken from bone marrow or fetal tissues? I did not think they had to be from the SAME tissue that you plan to grow which is why they are so unique? I have not read up on stem cells much though so keep me posted or pm me some links thank you.

 

[dpsquat]

well

problem is aquiring the stem cells!

 

[mike man]

Re: well

problem is aquiring the stem cells!

I know of about 6 pregnant women. Would this help???
LOL>

 

[Lesnar]

There is an important differentation here. Embyonic Stem cells and Native Stem cells. Native Stem cells are found throughout your body, especially inside your nose oddly enough. Embryonic stem cells are taken from a cell that has usually only been split 4 times after conception being sperm and egg union. These cells are theoretically more easily transfered to other people as they have been customized to one specific body and have the potential to be ANY cell in the body. All stem cells have a unique ability to recognize the surrounding area where they are transplanted. They are theriozed to work not only by becoming new cells relative to the area in which they are located, but by sending out unknown signals to the body to heal the surrounding area. Where the real potential for muscle growth is by injection of a cold virus modified with IGF-1 producing properties. The virus transfers the DNA to the muscle cells and they continually produce massive amounts of IGF-1. This has been done successfully in mice.

 

[RicPhoenix]

This all sounds interesting and the procedure sounds simple. To get the stem cells I think it would be best to use your own. It might be easier? I thought I read the stem cells are also in bone marrow?

Anyone have any references?