purpose: to report the outcomes of conjunctival-limbal autograft (clau) in patients with unilateral total limbal stem cell deficiency (lscd) emphasizing surgical problems, complications, and their management. methods: in this prospective interventional case series, clau combined with amniotic membrane transplantation as a graft was performed on 26 patients with unilateral total lscd due to chem...

mesenchymal stem cells (mscs),as the major stem cells for cell therapy, have been studied from different aspects in pre-clinical and clinical settings for more than a decade. these cells modulate the immune system (humoral and cellular immune responses) in vitro by producing soluble factors (anti-inflammatory molecules) and/or making cell-cell contacts. hence they could be used in regenerative ...

introduction: cardiac glycosides such as digoxin or digitoxin are the natural products that are traditionally used to increase cardiac contractile force in patients with heart failure and cardiac arrhythmias. it has been shown that digoxin can directly inhibit the cell proliferation and lead to cell apoptosis. present study was conducted to analyze the effect of digoxin in the cohorts of mesenc...

conclusions the findings of this study are consistent with the hypothesis that local, systemic, or tumor-induced immunosuppression may allow the mcpyv to initiate skin aggressive cancer. it is necessary to maintain regular check over patients taking immunosuppressive medications for mcpyv infection. since there is not any information about detection and molecular biology analysis of mcpyv among...

epilepsy as one of the most common neurological disorders affects more than 50 million people worldwide with a higher prevalence rate in low-income countries. excessive electrical discharges in neurons following neural cell damage or loss cause recurrent seizures. one of the most common and difficult to treat types of epilepsy is temporal lobe epilepsy (tle) which results from hippocampal scler...

background: generation of an effective dendritic cell (dc) based cancer vaccine depends on appropriate differentiation of monocytes in vitro. objective: to compare the effects of monocyte separation methods, flask adherence (flask-dc) and magnetic activated cell sorting (macs-dc), on phenotypic and functional characteristics of resultant dcs. methods: dcs from healthy volunteers were generated ...

the clinical potentials of stem cells in cell-based therapies have raised great hopes in diabetes mellitus as well. however, there are complex ethical, legal, and socio-cultural issues surrounding the subject. in this paper, we intend to review in brief the main ethical issues for endocrinologists and other clinicians who are interested and work in the field of cell therapy and research.