User:Bcarbone/sandboxCellTherapy

Issues: main reference and concept (duality between human and animal for instance) is out of date and not really relevant to contemporary applications of cell therapy. The first citation does not mention cell therapy, and there is no further link to cell therapy in the website provided. To the best of my knowledge, there is no official "alternative medicine cell therapy" reliable source, and it personally seems not to add anything to the content of the page. Quackwatch can't be considered a reliable source of information. The Quackwatch link provided is out of date (2003), full of inaccuracies and makes a huge confusion between "regular", medically approved cell therapy and this so-called animal-based one. I suggest this section is not relevant to the article and creates confusion between a sound medical approach and a controversial, unverified treatment. I would personally remove it.

Suggested new Main reference: http://www.asgct.org/general-public/educational-resources/gene-therapy--and-cell-therapy-defined

Structure:

Background becomes History of cell therapy

Cell therapy: why transplanting cells is useful replacing dead cells for function - e.g. skin transplants / pancreas / bone marrow drug delivery - dopaminergic neurons to replenish dopamine drug itself - T-cells to treat cancer

Sources - where do transplanted cells come from? Sub: allogenic / pancreatic islets / bone marrow Sub: autologous / hESC derived cells (diabetes, neurons)

Cell therapy: replacing endocrine cells to treat diabetes

Cell therapy: using neural progenitors to treat Parkinson's disease

Cell therapy: using neural stem cells to treat Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Cell therapy for blood and immune disorders - hematopoietic stem cells Keep present paragraph Mesenchymal stem cells Keep present paragraph