Skip to content
Research Article Open access CC BY 4.0

The Review of Stem Cell Therapy in Nigeria: The Way Forward

C. Chukwunonyerem, Ogwunga, N. Mercy, Madubuike, C. Okechukwu, Josephat, U. Emmanuel, Nwakwasi

Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medical Research · pp. 7–17 · Published 12 Jun 2021

10.9734/jocamr/2021/v14i330245

Abstract

Stem cells are unspecialized biological cells associated with self-renewal and proliferation abilities. Stem cell therapy involves the use of stem cells to deliver safe, effective, viable and consistent therapeutic interventions for debilitating health conditions. Many global researchers are striving to overcome the challenges associated with this therapy and Nigerians are not exempted from this struggle. As the country's health sector have suffered rigorous torments because of poor medical care and mismanagement of health facilities. However, it is expected that Nigeria should at least harbour one of the largest stem cell centres in Africa, to help cater for its citizens as well as non-citizens. Notwithstanding the ethical, financial, social, political, and religious challenges facing stem cell therapy in Nigeria, there is still hope for the nation’s health sector to strive past these hurdles in the coming years but only if priority is placed on the well-being of citizens rather than in the search for profit. Future stem cell research in Nigeria should include the treatment of communicable and non-communicable diseases and will be of great importance if the government could harness stem cell therapy as a tool to boost its economy. Hence, this review paper focuses mainly on the present status of stem cell therapy in Nigeria and the way forward.

Stem cells stem cell therapy challenges ethics way forward

References (25)

  1. 1 Stem cells: past, present, and future [DOI]
  2. 2 The clinical symptoms of Parkinson's disease [DOI]
  3. 3 Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Alleviate Experimental Colitis by Inhibiting Inflammatory and Autoimmune Responses [DOI]
  4. 4 Ethical Issues in Stem Cell Research [DOI]
  5. 5 Specific induction of neuronal cells from bone marrow stromal cells and application for autologous transplantation [DOI]
  6. 6 Transplantation of in vitro‐expanded fetal neural progenitor cells results in neurogenesis and functional recovery after spinal cord contusion injury in adult rats [DOI]
  7. 7 Human embryonic stem cell lines derived from single blastomeres [DOI]
  8. 8 Improvement of neurological deficits by intracerebral transplantation of human adipose tissue-derived stromal cells after cerebral ischemia in rats [DOI]
  9. 9 Stem Cells in the Treatment of Disease [DOI]
  10. 10 Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: Problems and Advantages when Applying them in Regenerative Medicine [DOI]
  11. 11 Adipose tissue stem cells in regenerative medicine [DOI]
  12. 12 Wnt5a-treated midbrain neural stem cells improve dopamine cell replacement therapy in parkinsonian mice [DOI]
  13. 13 Transplantation of primed or unprimed mouse embryonic stem cell-derived neural precursor cells improves cognitive function in Alzheimerian rats [DOI]
  14. 14 Embryo Ethics — The Moral Logic of Stem-Cell Research [DOI]
  15. 15 Mobilized Peripheral Blood Cells Administered Intravenously Produce Functional Recovery in Stroke [DOI]
  16. 16 Mechanistic investigations on the antioxidant action of a neuroprotective estrogen derivative [DOI]
  17. 17 Differentiation and migration of long term expanded human neural progenitors in a partial lesion model of Parkinson’s disease [DOI]
  18. 18 The use of stem cells in kidney disease [DOI]
  19. 19 Grand challenges in stem cell treatments [DOI]
  20. 20 Stem Cell Therapies: A Way to Promising Cures [DOI]
  21. 21 Congenital Anomalies - From the Embryo to the Neonate [DOI]
  22. 22 Stem Cell Research in Africa: Legislation and Challenges [DOI]
  23. 23 Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation After Nonmyeloablative Preparative Regimens: Impact of Pretransplantation and Posttransplantation Factors on Outcome [DOI]
  24. 24 Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine - A Review
  25. 25 Nigeria's bone marrow registry offers new hope to patients [DOI]

Cited by 1

Molecular Mechanism of Stem Cells' Pluripotency

Olasoji O. Agboola, Olamidunjulo O. Agboola · Path of Science · 2025

Related research

Article metrics

Real usage data collected on this platform.

36

Page views

0

PDF downloads

4

Outbound clicks

1

Citations

Views over time

Views by country

Approximate, from request IP at view time — not citizenship or institution. Countries with fewer than 5 views are grouped as "Other".

Traffic sources

Referring site, by host.

Views and downloads exclude known bots/crawlers. Citations combines this platform's own DOI-resolved index with each external source's own reported total — see Cited by above for individually listed citing works. Last refreshed 0 seconds ago.