Background: Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are important candidates for MSC-based cellular therapy. Current paradigm states that MSCs support local progenitor cells in damaged tissue through paracrine signaling. Therefore, study of paracrine effects and secretome of MSCs could lead to the appreciation of mechanisms and molecules associated with the therapeutic effects of these cells. This study ...

Arachidonic acid (AA), a fatty acid found in the human bone marrow plasma, is the precursor of eicosanoids that modulate bone marrow haematopoiesis. To further our understanding of the role of AA in the bone marrow physiology, we have assessed its incorporation in human bone marrow mononuclear cells. Gas chromatography analysis indicates the presence of AA in their fatty acid composition. In bo...

introduction demyelination is a common lesion of spinal cord injury; cell therapy is an approach for replacing the lost oligodendrocytes. objective in this study, bone marrow stromal cells (bmscs) have been transdifferentiated into oligodendrocyte-like cells (olcs) and used in cytotherapy of contused spinal cords in rats. materials and methods the bmscs were collected from rat long bones, cultu...

Objective: The aim of this study is to observe the homing and distribution of the foreign multidrug resistance gene 1 (mdr1) in gene therapy. Method: After the bone marrow mononuclear cells of male BABL/C which was transferred with retrovirus-mediated mdr1 were transplanted into female Babl/c which was conducted radiotherapy with 60Co-γ, the expression and distribution of foreign mdr1 in the bo...

10 The time between myocar-dial infarction and intracoronary infusion therapy was nearly identical in the BMC and placebo group (median of 4 days), thus any spontaneous improvement in left ventri-cular ejection fraction (LVEF) prior to intra-coronary infusion therapy may have occurred to the same extent in both groups. As suggested by Marenzi and Bartor-elli, we re-analysed a potential effect o...

OBJECTIVES Stem cell transplant can induce vasculogenesis and improve the blood supply to an ischemic region, offering hope for chronic lower extremity ischemic diseases. Bone marrow mononuclear cells are one of the sources for stem cell transplants. We sought to observe the safety and efficacy of autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells transplant for treating critical limb ischemia. MATERIA...

We recently reported that chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) cells converted into myofibroblasts to create a microenvironment for proliferation of CML cells in vitro. To analyze a biological contribution of CML-derived myofibroblasts in vivo, we observed the characters of leukemic nonobese diabetes/severe combined immunodeficiency (NOD/SCID) mouse. Bone marrow nonadherent mononuclear cells as w...

Hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs) which give rise to different blood cell types are present within the bone marrow microenvironment, especially in flat bones such as skull, vertebrae, pelvis and chest. Interacting factors such as stromal derived factor-1/CXCR4, very late antigen-4/vascular cell adhesion molecule-1, Lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1/ intercellular adhesion molec...