Burn is a common issue found in daily life, however the allied health professionals find numbers of obstacles in treating burns. Most of the obstacles found are complicated or chronic burns which is hard to be completely healed, infection on local burns, or even worse when involving visceral organs which leads to death. There are several alternatives in treating burns but not all of those methods have been proven to be effective. Hence, the writing of this issue is to provide information about burns and mesenchymal stem cell as its alternative method in treating burns which has been proven to be effective.
Mesenchymal stem cell is a multipotential stem cell that can be obtained from the connective tissue of the body. Mesenchymal stem cell has some beneficial treats for treating many kind of diseases thus many researchers have been conducted to prove its effectiveness in treating diseases or tissue damages, one of the is in treating burns.
The researchs figuring out the effect of mesenchymal stem cells in treating burns mostly use the randomized control trial method, using animals and human as their objects. The result of applying mesenchymal stem cells to burns is proven to be satisfying due to its role as a paracrine which stimulates the process of neoangiogenesis and reepithelization on the burn wound. |