background: the aim of this research was to evaluate the effect of adipose derived stem cells on bone repair in through and through mandibular bone defects of canine. materials and methods: in this prospective comparative study, adipose-derived stem cells were isolated from subcutaneous fat of lateral thoracic area of 4 dogs. the isolated cells were cultured and expanded through 3 passages. the...

background & aim: low back pain is broadly documented as one of the most widespread pathologies in the advanced domain. although the reasons of low back pain are uncountable, it has been meaningfully related to intervertebral disc degeneration. present therapies for intervertebral disc (ivd) degeneration such as physical therapy and spinal fusion reduce symptoms' severity, but do not treat the ...

background: bone marrow stromal stem cells (bmsc) are appropriate source of multipotent stem cells that are ideally suited for use in various cell-based therapies. it can be differentiated into neuronal-like cells under appropriate conditions. this study examined the effectiveness of co-stimulation of creatine and retinoic acid in increasing the differentiation of bmsc into gabaergic neuron-lik...

in this center, from 1991 to 2002, 89 chronic myelogenous leukemic (cml) patients, age ranging between 8-48 years with a median age of 29, underwent hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. eighty-eight patients were in the first chronic phase of disease. twenty-three patients received bone marrow transplantation (bmt) and 66 patients received peripheral blood stem cell transplantations (pbsct)...