The TheraCyte™ device protects against islet allograft rejection in immunized hosts.

abstract：:Recent advances in tissue engineering technologies have highlighted the ability to create functional liver systems using isolated hepatocytes in vivo. Considering the serious shortage of donor livers that can be used for hepatocyte isolation, it has remained imperative to establish a hepatocyte propagation protocol t...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Ohashi K,Tatsumi K,Tateno C,Kataoka M,Utoh R,Yoshizato K,Okano T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Techniques for medical tissue regeneration require an abundant source of human adult stem cells. There is increasing evidence that adipose stem cells contribute to restoration of tissue vascularization and organ function. The object of our study was to isolate and characterize adult adipose-derived stem cells from pat...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Folgiero V,Migliano E,Tedesco M,Iacovelli S,Bon G,Torre ML,Sacchi A,Marazzi M,Bucher S,Falcioni R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligodendrocyte (OL) replacement can be a promising strategy for spinal cord injury (SCI) repair. However, the poor posttransplantation survival and inhibitory properties to axonal regeneration are two major challenges that limit their use as donor cells for repair of CNS injuries. Therefore, strategies aimed at enhan...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Hu JG,Wang XF,Deng LX,Liu NK,Gao X,Chen JH,Zhou FC,Xu XM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) released from mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) mediate their paracrine effect, but their efficacy to protect the microcirculation of the kidney is unknown. Using a novel swine model of unilateral renovascular disease (RVD) complicated by metabolic syndrome (MetS), we tested ...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Eirin A,Zhu XY,Jonnada S,Lerman A,van Wijnen AJ,Lerman LO

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiopoietin-1 (Ang1) mediates vascular maturation and immune response. Diabetes decreases Ang1 expression and disrupts Ang1/Tie2 signaling activity. Vasculotide is an Ang1 mimetic peptide, and has anti-inflammatory effects. In this study, we test the hypothesis that vasculotide treatment induces neuroprotection and d...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Venkat P,Yan T,Chopp M,Zacharek A,Ning R,Van Slyke P,Dumont D,Landschoot-Ward J,Liang L,Chen J

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pluripotent stem cells, including human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells, have generated much excitement about their prospects for use in cell transplantation therapies. This is largely attributable to their virtually unlimited growth potential, their ability to be precisely genetically altered ...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Robinson AJ,Zhao G,Rathjen J,Rathjen PD,Hutchinson RG,Eyre HJ,Hemsley KM,Hopwood JJ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simple and efficient freezing methods with maximal postthawing recovery form the basis of ideal cryopreservation. Taurine (2-amino ethanesulfonic acid), an end-product of sulphur amino acid metabolism, is one of the most abundant free amino acids in the body. The membrane stabilizing, free radical scavenging, and osmo...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Hardikar AA,Risbud MV,Remacle C,Reusens B,Hoet JJ,Bhonde RR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, which is characterized by loss of memory and cognitive function. In AD patients dysfunction of the cholinergic system is the main cause of cognitive disorders, and decreased activity of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), an enzyme responsible for acety...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Park D,Joo SS,Kim TK,Lee SH,Kang H,Lee HJ,Lim I,Matsuo A,Tooyama I,Kim YB,Kim SU

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreas procurement for islet isolation and transplantation is limited by concerns for the detrimental effects of postmortem ischemia. Hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) preservation technology has had a major impact in circumventing ischemic injury in clinical kidney transplantation and is applied here to the prese...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Taylor MJ,Baicu S,Greene E,Vazquez A,Brassil J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human marrow stromal cells (hMSCs) provide functional benefit in rats subjected to stroke. Astrocytes are coupled into a cellular network via gap junction channels, predominantly composed of connexin-43 (Cx43) proteins. Astrocytes are believed to play a vital role in neuroprotection by providing energy substrates to n...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Gao Q,Katakowski M,Chen X,Li Y,Chopp M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of a fluorescent reporter gene has been studied using two alternate promoters to transcribe the green fluorescent protein (gfp) from Aequorea victoria. The human cytomegalovirus (CMV) enhancer/ promoter or the human muscle-specific creatine kinase promoter (CKM) were inserted along with the gfp cDNA into a ...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Bartlett RJ,Secore SL,Singer JT,Bodo M,Sharma K,Ricordi C

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) displays high resistance to radiation and chemotherapy, due to the presence of a fraction of GBM stem-like cells (GSLCs), which are thus representing the target for GBM elimination. Since mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) display high tumor tropism, we examined possible antitumor effects of t...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Kološa K,Motaln H,Herold-Mende C,Koršič M,Lah TT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-based therapy for the bladder has its beginnings in the 1990s with the successful isolation and culture of bladder smooth muscle cells. Since then, several attempts have been made to artificially implant native cell types and stem cell-derived cells into damaged bladders in the form of single-cell injectables or ...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Gopinath C,Ponsaerts P,Wyndaele JJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell transplants into damaged myocardium may have the potential to improve cardiac function. We investigated the safety of transplanting unmanipulated autologous bone marrow into infarcted myocardium of patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery and assessed its efficacy to improve cardiac function. Fourteen pat...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Galiñanes M,Loubani M,Davies J,Chin D,Pasi J,Bell PR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periosteal autografts have the potential to regenerate articular cartilage defects, but this potential is limited by the patient's age. Allograft transplantation from a young donor to an older recipient might bypass this limitation. The effect of the time delay, between death and harvesting of a periosteal graft, on t...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： O'Driscoll SW,Meisami B,Miura Y,Fitzsimmons JS

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of human neurodevelopmental disorders and stem cell-based regenerative transplants have been hampered by the lack of a model of the developing human brain. Stem cell-derived neurons suffer major limitations, including the ability to recapitulate the 3-dimensional architecture of a brain tissue and the represen...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Yakoub AM,Sadek M

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adequate regulation of glucose levels by a microencapsulated pancreatic islet graft requires a minute-to-minute regulation of blood glucose. To design such a transplant, it is mandatory to have sufficient insight in factors influencing the kinetics of insulin secretion by encapsulated islets. The present study investi...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： de Haan BJ,Faas MM,de Vos P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in morphology, metabolism, myosin heavy chain gene expression, and functional performances in damaged rabbit muscles with or without transplantation of primary satellite cells were investigated. For this purpose, we damaged bilaterally the fast muscle tibialis anterior (TA) with either 1.5 or 2.6 ml cardiotoxi...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Boubaker el Andalousi R,Daussin PA,Micallef JP,Roux C,Nougues J,Chammas M,Reyne Y,Bacou F

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To engineer liver tissues with a clinically significant size, in vivo evaluation of performance using large-scale animal studies are necessary before proceeding to human clinical trials. As pigs are the most suitable candidates, the development of culture conditions suitable for porcine hepatocyte progenitors is very ...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Huang H,Hanada S,Kojima N,Sakai Y

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regenerative medicine is a new field primarily based on the concept of transplanting exogenous or stimulating endogenous stem cells to generate biological substitutes and improve tissue functions. Recently, amnion-derived cells have been reported to have multipotent differentiation ability, and these cells have attrac...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Yu SJ,Soncini M,Kaneko Y,Hess DC,Parolini O,Borlongan CV

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocyte transplantation (HT) has become an effective therapy for patients with metabolic inborn errors. We report the clinical outcome of four children with metabolic inborn errors that underwent HT, describing the cell infusion protocol and the metabolic outcome of transplanted patients. Cryopreserved hepatocytes...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Ribes-Koninckx C,Ibars EP,Calzado Agrasot MÁ,Bonora-Centelles A,Miquel BP,Vila Carbó JJ,Aliaga ED,Pallardó JM,Gómez-Lechón MJ,Castell JV

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) hold great promise for bone regeneration. However, the power of mesenchymal stem cells has not been applied to structural bone allografts in clinical practice. This study designed a new strategy to enhance the efficiency of allografts for segmental bone regeneration. Isolated MSCs were cu...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Zou XH,Cai HX,Yin Z,Chen X,Jiang YZ,Hu H,Ouyang HW

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipose tissue contains a mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) population known as adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) capable of differentiating into different cell types. Our aim was to induce hepatic transdifferentiation of ASCs by sequential exposure to several combinations of cytokines, growth factors, and hormones. The mos...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Bonora-Centelles A,Jover R,Mirabet V,Lahoz A,Carbonell F,Castell JV,Gómez-Lechón MJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insufficient oxygenation can limit the long-term survival of encapsulated islets in subcutaneous tissue. Transplantation of coencapsulated pig islets with adipose or bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (AMSCs or BM-MSCs, respectively) was investigated with regard to implant vascularization, oxygenation, and diabetes co...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Vériter S,Gianello P,Igarashi Y,Beaurin G,Ghyselinck A,Aouassar N,Jordan B,Gallez B,Dufrane D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical consequences of acute liver failure are associated with high mortality. Intensive medical intervention is required to treat the symptoms of liver failure, including coagulopathy, metabolic instability, and encephalopathy. Providing temporary liver support with an extracorporeal liver assist device could s...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Gregory PG,Connolly CK,Toner M,Sullivan SJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We transplanted adult whole bone marrow prelabeled with bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) into the ischemic boundary zone of the adult rat brain at 1 day after 2 h of middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAo). Approximately 3.3% of 10(6) transplanted bone marrow cells were BrdU reactive at 14 days after MCAo. BrdU-reactive cells...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Li Y,Chen J,Chopp M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biohybrid artificial pancreas is designed to enclose pancreatic tissues with a selectively permeable membrane that immunoisolates the graft from the host immune system, allowing those endocrine tissues to survive and control glucose metabolism for an extended period of time. The pancreatic B cell line MIN6 is esta...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Kawakami Y,Inoue K,Hayashi H,Wang WJ,Setoyama H,Gu YJ,Imamura M,Iwata H,Ikada Y,Nozawa M,Miyazaki J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies in humans with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) and in nonobese diabetic mice have investigated the beneficial immunomodulatory potential of aerobic physical activity. Performing high volume of aerobic exercise may favorably regulate autoimmunity in diabetes. We tested whether increased physical activit...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Adamo M,Codella R,Casiraghi F,Ferrulli A,Macrì C,Bazzigaluppi E,Terruzzi I,Inverardi L,Ricordi C,Luzi L

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigs share many anatomical and physiological features with humans, offering a unique and viable model for biomedical research. Although porcine female germline stem cells (FGSCs) were identified in the juvenile ovary, no reports described the isolation and purification of FGSCs from the pig at sexual maturity. Here, w...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Hou L,Wang J,Li X,Wang H,Liu G,Xu B,Mei X,Hua X,Wu J

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The third-generation NOD/LtSz-scid/IL2Rγ(null) (NOD/SCID IL2Rγ(null)) mouse represents a significantly improved xenograft model allowing high levels of human leukocyte engraftment over extended follow up. One remaining limitation of this mouse model, however, is the low level of circulating human erythrocytes. We esta...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Hayakawa J,Hsieh MM,Anderson DE,Phang O,Uchida N,Washington K,Tisdale JF

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00