How does the speaker quantify stem cell abundance in fat vs bone marrow?

Name: Fat-Derived Stem Cells: What’s New? 😱
Uploaded: 2024-02-28T13:00:16+00:00
Duration: 39 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains that fat contains far more stem cells than bone marrow and can be harvested easily through liposuction. Commercial devices like…

Dr. Charles MokOwner at Allure Medical

Fat-Derived Stem Cells: What’s New? 😱

28 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains that fat contains far more stem cells than bone marrow and can be harvested easily through liposuction. Commercial devices like PureGraft and Lipogems process the fat to release stem cells for injection into damaged joints or tissues.

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The speaker states there are "probably 20 times more stem cells per milliliter of fat tissue than... per milliliter of bone marrow, about 500 times more."

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The most common source of stem cell we're using now is fat derived stem cells. So in your fat tissue, which most of us have plenty, you've got a very rich supply of stem cells. In fact, there's probably 20 times more stem cells per milliliter of fat tissue than there is per milliliter of bone marrow, about 500 times more. So it's very rich supply on the type of stem cells that we want. The stem cells are harvested through a very simple liposuction procedures. And there's two ways this is approached. One is to use devices that break up the fat cells. There's different kits out there, pure graft and lipogems, where and the machine breaks up the fat cells, frees up the stem cells, and it's injected directly into the joint or into the tissue we injected into.