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：:Near infrared fluorescence (NIRF) optical imaging is a technique particularly powerful when studying in vivo processes at the molecular level in preclinical animal models. We recently demonstrated liver irradiation under the additional stimulus of partial hepatectomy as being an effective primer in the rat liver repop...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Koenig S,Krause P,Hosseini AS,Dullin C,Rave-Fraenk M,Kimmina S,Entwistle AL,Hermann RM,Hess CF,Becker H,Christiansen H

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:A fresh osteochondral allograft is one of the most effective treatments for cartilage defects of the knee. Despite the clinical success, fresh osteochondral allografts have great limitations in relation to the short storage time that cartilage tissues can be well-preserved. Fresh osteochondral grafts are generally sto...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Bae JY,Matsumura K,Wakitani S,Kawaguchi A,Tsutsumi S,Hyon SH

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic stem cells can be isolated from a variety of sources. Although some studies have suggested that somatic stem cells may represent a cell population that is very similar to embryonic stem (ES) cells, it remains unclear whether somatic stem cells retain the potential to differentiate into any cell type derived fr...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Oishi K,Noguchi H,Yukawa H,Hayashi S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional culture procedures have attracted attention in various fields of cell biology. A newly developed cell array assisted in the formation of hepatocyte spheroids by two innovations: 1) micropatterning by a hydrophilic polymer, and 2) the use of bovine carotid artery-derived HH cells as feeder cells. The ...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Miyamoto Y,Ikeya T,Enosawa S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient repopulation by transplanted hepatocytes in the severely injured liver is essential for their clinical application in the treatment of acute hepatic failure. We studied here whether and how the transplanted hepatocytes are able to efficiently repopulate the toxin-induced acute injured liver. Male dipeptidyl ...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Yu CH,Chen HL,Chen YH,Chang MF,Chien CS,Chang MH

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic islet transplantation has the potential to be an effective treatment for type 1 diabetes mellitus. While recent improvements have improved 1-year outcomes, follow-up studies show a persistent loss of graft function/survival over 5 years. One possible cause of islet transplant failure is the immunosuppressan...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Johnson JD,Ao Z,Ao P,Li H,Dai LJ,He Z,Tee M,Potter KJ,Klimek AM,Meloche RM,Thompson DM,Verchere CB,Warnock GL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autologous brain cell transplantation might be useful for repairing lesions and restoring function of the central nervous system. We have demonstrated that adult monkey brain cells, obtained from cortical biopsy and kept in culture for a few weeks, exhibit neural progenitor characteristics that make them useful for br...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Brunet JF,Redmond DE Jr,Bloch J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cells are unique cells in the ability that can self-renew and differentiate into a wide variety of cell types, suggesting that a specific molecular control network underlies these features. To date, stem cells have been applied to many clinical therapeutic approaches. For example, hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) ...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Liu SP,Fu RH,Yu HH,Li KW,Tsai CH,Shyu WC,Lin SZ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent cells characterized by their self-renewal and differentiation potential. Accumulating clinical and preclinical evidence indicate MSCs are a promising cell source for regenerative medical therapies. However, undesirable immortalization, spontaneous trans...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Furlani D,Li W,Pittermann E,Klopsch C,Wang L,Knopp A,Jungebluth P,Thedinga E,Havenstein C,Westien I,Ugurlucan M,Li RK,Ma N,Steinhoff G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an inherited disease and a main target of myogenic cell transplantation (MT). After the failure of the first clinical trials with DMD patients, the poor migration of transplanted cells has been suspected to be a major problem for a more effective clinical application of MT. Previou...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Lafreniere JF,Caron MC,Skuk D,Goulet M,Cheikh AR,Tremblay JP

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stem (ES) cells have the ability to generate teratomas when transplanted into immunodeficient mice, but conditions affecting the generation remain to be elucidated. Nonhuman primate cynomolgus ES cells were transplanted into immunodeficient mice under different conditions; the number of transplanted cells, p...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Kishi Y,Tanaka Y,Shibata H,Nakamura S,Takeuchi K,Masuda S,Ikeda T,Muramatsu SI,Hanazono Y

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) may be of value in regeneration of renal tissue after damage; however, lack of biological knowledge and variability of results in animal models limit their utilization. We studied the effects of MSCs on podocytes in vitro and in vivo utilizing adriamycin (ADR) as a model of renal toxicity...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Magnasco A,Corselli M,Bertelli R,Ibatici A,Peresi M,Gaggero G,Cappiello V,Chiavarina B,Mattioli G,Gusmano R,Ravetti JL,Frassoni F,Ghiggeri GM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined a possible protective effect of the nonpeptidyl low molecular weight radical scavenger IAC [bis(1-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinyl)decanedioate di-hydrochloride] on isolated human islet cells against isolation and culture oxidative stress. Islets isolated from pancreases of nondiabetic multiorgan ...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Mancarella R,Del Guerra S,Masini M,Bugliani M,Valgimigli L,Pedulli GF,Paolini M,Canistro D,Armando A,Soleti A,Filipponi F,Mosca F,Boggi U,Del Prato S,Marchetti P,Lupi R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in islet transplantation using highly purified islets and effective immunosuppression strategies have resulted in substantial improvement in achieving insulin independence in type 1 diabetes patients. However, there are side effects from long-term immunosuppression, and transplant rejection and/or the ...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Kobayashi N

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ET-Kyoto solution (ET-K) is an extracellular-type organ preservation solution containing the cytoprotective disaccharide, trehalose. A previous study reported the supplement of dibutyryl cyclic adenosine monophosphate (db-cAMP) in conventional ET-K to attenuate lung ischemia-reperfusion injury. In this study, the effi...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Zhao X,Koshiba T,Nakamura T,Tsuruyama T,Li Y,Bando T,Wada H,Tanaka K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural immunological tolerance can be induced in certain types of allogeneic liver transplantation in rats. To screen for genes associated with the induction of tolerance, suppression subtractive hybridization was performed in the rat liver transplantation model between a DA donor and PVG recipient combination where ...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Zhang H,Ohmi K,Hirasawa A,Enosawa S,Hara Y,Tamura A,Tsujimoto G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To learn more about nonimmune-mediated islet graft failure, we transplanted different preparations (preps) of isolated human islets under the kidney capsule of streptozotocin (STZ)-diabetic nude mice. One month after the implantation of 1,000 or 2,000 islets, grafts were harvested for morphological, immunohistochemica...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Davalli AM,Perego L,Bertuzzi F,Finzi G,La Rosa S,Blau A,Placidi C,Nano R,Gregorini L,Perego C,Capella C,Folli F

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is a dominant inherited disease caused by expanded trinucleotide repeats resulting in an increased polyglutamine tract in the gene product. As a potential therapeutic approach for SCA1, we tested antisense RNAs targeting two regions of the ataxin-1 message. Single-stranded regions ...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Gao Y,Zu T,Low WC,Orr HT,McIvor RS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cord blood is an attractive cell source in regenerative medicine and represents an alternative to bone marrow. The aim of this study was to investigate whether human umbilical cord blood mononuclear (HUCBM) cells might be valuable in hepatic regenerative medicine. HUCBM cells differentiated in vitro into hepatocytes, ...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Alvarez-Mercado AI,Sáez-Lara MJ,García-Mediavilla MV,Sánchez-Campos S,Abadía F,Cabello-Donayre M,Gil A,González-Gallego J,Fontana L

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the goals of islet transplantation is to transplant viable islets without host immunosuppression. The present study was designed to determine whether pretreatment of islets with mitomycin-C (MMC) followed by culture enhances islet survival in a rat-to-mouse xenogeneic combination. WS(RT1k) rat islets pretreated...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Gunji T,Saito T,Sato Y,Matsuyama S,Ise K,Kimura T,Anazawa T,Gotoh M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important challenge in pancreatic islet transplantation in association with type 1 diabetes is to define automatic high-throughput assays for evaluation of human islet function. The physiological techniques presently used are amenable to small-scale experimental samples and produce descriptive results. The postgeno...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Cabrera O,Jacques-Silva MC,Berman DM,Fachado A,Echeverri F,Poo R,Khan A,Kenyon NS,Ricordi C,Berggren PO,Caicedo A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main purpose of this work has been to establish a new culturing technique to improve the chondrogenic commitment of isolated adult human chondrocytes, with the aim of being used during cell-based therapies or tissue engineering strategies. By using a rather novel technique to generate scaffold-free three-dimension...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Martinez I,Elvenes J,Olsen R,Bertheussen K,Johansen O

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myoblast transplantation is being considered as a potential strategy to improve muscle function in myopathies; hence, it is important to identify the transplanted cells and to have available efficient reagents to track these cells. We first validated a human to mouse xenotransplantation model warranting the complete a...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Praud C,Vauchez K,Lombes A,Fiszman MY,Vilquin JT

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is a preliminary investigation to determine if bone marrow-derived cells, when implanted into freeze-injured urinary bladders, differentiate into smooth muscle cells and reconstruct smooth muscle layers. Bone marrow cells were harvested from femurs of male ICR mice and cultured in collagen-coated dishes for...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Imamura T,Kinebuchi Y,Ishizuka O,Seki S,Igawa Y,Nishizawa O

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurorestorative effects of exogenous neurturin (NTN) delivered directly into the putamen via multiport catheters were studied in 10 MPTP-lesioned rhesus monkeys expressing stable parkinsonism. The parkinsonian animals were blindly assigned to receive coded solutions containing either vehicle (n = 5) or NTN (n = 5...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Grondin R,Zhang Z,Ai Y,Ding F,Walton AA,Surgener SP,Gerhardt GA,Gash DM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocyte transplantation is a promising therapy for acute liver failure in humans. Recently, we succeeded in inducing various acute and chronic liver failures in nude mice. Engraftment of transplanted xenogeneic rat hepatocytes, visualized in the host liver by anti-MHC class I immunohistochemistry, revealed that liv...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Vidal I,Blanchard N,Alexandre E,Gandillet A,Chenard-Neu MP,Staedtler F,Schumacher M,Bachellier P,Jaeck D,Firat H,Heyd B,Richert L

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diverse requirements for a successful islet encapsulation barrier suggest the benefit of a barrier system that presents differing functionalities to encapsulated cells and host cells. Initially, multifunctional hydrogels were synthesized via the sequential photopolymerization of PEG hydrogel layers, each with diff...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Weber LM,Cheung CY,Anseth KS

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the isolation of human islets of Langerhans the digest has repeated direct contact with the ambient atmosphere. In order to fulfill GMP requirements in clinical applications, the entire cell preparation must be performed in clean room facilities. We hypothesized that the use of a closed system, which avoids the...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Klaffschenkel RA,Biesemeier A,Waidmann M,Northoff H,Steurer W,Königsrainer A,Lembert N

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow (BM) cells may interact with coronary endothelium and modulate coronary atherosclerosis. We investigated the time course of coronary luminal loss and changes in conductance after intracoronary injection of enriched hematopoietic BM stem cells in patients with previous myocardial infarction (MI). Among 24 p...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Vanderheyden M,Vercauteren S,Mansour S,Delrue L,Vandekerckhove B,Heyndrickx GR,Van Haute I,De Bruyne B,Timmermans F,Wijns W,Bartunek J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large proportion of islets are lost after transplantation partly due to a lack of functional vasculature. Islets revascularize from host tissue but the process takes up to 2 weeks and has been suggested to result in reduced vascular density in engrafted islets. We describe a method for observing and quantifying the ...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Jones GL,Juszczak MT,Hughes SJ,Kooner P,Powis SH,Press M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder that occurs in patients with a mutation in the huntingtin or IT15 gene. Patients are plagued by early cognitive signs, motor deficits, and psychiatric disturbances. Symptoms are attributed to cell death in the striatum and disruption of cortical-str...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Ramaswamy S,Shannon KM,Kordower JH

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous observations in heat-shocked pig islets revealed the ambivalent character of the stress response simultaneously inducing processes of protection and apoptosis. To clarify whether the proapoptotic character of the stress response is reduced in heat-exposed islets still embedded in their native environment, hyp...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Brandhorst H,Olbrich M,Neumann A,Jahr H,Brandhorst D

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) islet processing facilities provide an ultraclean environment for the safe production of clinical grade islets for transplantation into immunosuppressed diabetic recipients. The objective of this study was to monitor the rate of microbial contamination in islet products after...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Kin T,Rosichuk S,Shapiro AM,Lakey JR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several molecular therapies require the implantation of cells that secrete biotherapeutic molecules and imaging the location and microenvironment of the cellular implant to ascertain its function. We demonstrate noninvasive in vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of self-assembled microcontainers that are capable of ...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Gimi B,Artemov D,Leong T,Gracias DH,Gilson W,Stuber M,Bhujwalla ZM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to fully characterize and determine the therapeutic potential of adult neural progenitor cells (NPCs), it is important to be able to isolate and study NPCs from animals such as rats, in which there are existing models of brain injury and disease. The focus of this study was to characterize the cultivation, di...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Chen K,Hughes SM,Connor B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of a new microvasculature is essential for the long-term survival and function of the islet graft. In this study we examined endothelium of isolated pancreatic islets by stimulation with growth factors, different culture conditions, and genetic modification. We also inspected the effect of immunosuppress...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Kidszun A,Schneider D,Erb D,Hertl G,Schmidt V,Eckhard M,Preissner KT,Breier G,Bretzel RG,Linn T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenotransplantation of porcine fetal ventral mesencephalic (pfVM) cells to overcome the dopamine shortage in the striatum of patients with Parkinson's disease seems a viable alternative to allotransplantion of human fetal donor tissue, especially because the latter is complicated by both practical and ethical issues. ...

journal_title：Cell transplantation

authors： Koopmans J,de Haan A,Bruin E,van der Gun I,van Dijk H,Rozing J,de Leij L,Staal M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00