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 ...

objective: human retinal pigment epithelium (hrpe) is a cell monolayer located in the outer part of the retina that is in contact with photoreceptors. in many diseases rpe cells damage. one way for treating this disease is the implantation of intact instead of damaged cells. for this reason different types of substrates have been used for cell cultivation. this study has used alginate and a ble...

objectives:  the efficacy of adding platelet-rich plasma (prp) to demineralized freeze-dried bone allograft (dfdba) in order to improve the clinical and radiographic results obtained in treatment of deep periodontal intrabony defects has yet to be fully elucidated. materials ­and methods: this double blind, split-mouth randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted on 12 patients with two c...

bone tissue engineering has been one of the most promising areas of research, providing a potential clinical application to cure bone defects. recently, various stem cells, including embryonic stem cells (escs), bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (bm-mscs), umbilical cord blood-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ucb-mscs), adipose tissue-derived stem cells (adscs), muscle-derived stem cell...

conclusions although the aforementioned challenges must still be addressed, the potential of wjmscs in skin regenerative clinical treatments is promising. results similar to bone marrow mscs, wjmscs express major histocompatibility complex (mhc) class i molecules. evidence acquisition according to research conducted by various researchers, wharton’s jelly mesenchymal stem cells (wjmscs) have se...

the provision of an adequate quantity of cells with proper function and purity is one of the main challenges of tissue engineering studies. stem cells, with their self-renewal and differentiation capacity, are considered one of the main cell sources in the field of tissue engineering. previously, the use of chemical factors seemed to be the only possible way for stem cell differentiation. howev...