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  1. Generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from human peripheral blood provides a convenient and low-invasive way to obtain patient-specific iPSCs. The episomal vector is one of the best approaches f...

    Authors: Haihui Gu, Xia Huang, Jing Xu, Lili Song, Shuping Liu, Xiao-bing Zhang, Weiping Yuan and Yanxin Li
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:163
  2. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a widespread arthritic disease and a primary cause of disability. Increasing evidence suggests that inflammation has a pivotal part in its pathogenesis. Interleukin-1β (IL-1β) is a prima...

    Authors: Bo Gao, Wenjie Gao, Zizhao Wu, Taifeng Zhou, Xianjian Qiu, Xudong Wang, Chengjie Lian, Yan Peng, Anjing Liang, Jincheng Qiu, Yuanxin Zhu, Caixia Xu, Yibing Li, Peiqiang Su and Dongsheng Huang
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:162
  3. One of the major obstacles facing stem cell therapy is the limited number of functional stem cells available after transplantation due to the harsh microenvironment surrounding the damaged tissue. The aim of t...

    Authors: Mianhuan Li, Yi Lv, Feng Chen, Xiaoyan Wang, Jiang Zhu, Hao Li and Jia Xiao
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:161
  4. Arterial calcification is associated with cardiovascular disease as a complication of advanced atherosclerosis and is a significant contributor to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Osteoblastic different...

    Authors: Shuangshuang Wang, Siwang Hu, Jian Wang, Yahui Liu, Ruochi Zhao, Maoqing Tong, Hanbin Cui, Nan Wu and Xiaomin Chen
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:160
  5. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) have gained credibility as a therapeutic tool partly due to their potential to secrete factors such as cytokines and chemokines. Recently, exosomes, which mediate intercellular com...

    Authors: Xiaochun Liu, Shiwei Wang, Suhui Wu, Qian Hao, Ying Li, Zhuodan Guo and Wenzhen Wang
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:159
  6. The physiological approach suggests that an environment associating mesenchymal stromal cells with low O2 concentration would be most favorable for the maintenance of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs). ...

    Authors: Dewan Zhao, Lingjia Liu, Qiang Chen, Fangfang Wang, Qiuyang Li, Qiang Zeng, Jingcao Huang, Maowen Luo, Wenxian Li, Yuhuan Zheng and Ting Liu
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:158
  7. Efficacious bone substitute is essential for the treatment of a critical size bone defect. Currently, the bone substitutes commonly used in clinical practice lack osteogenic capacity and the therapeutic effica...

    Authors: Wenxiang Chu, Yaokai Gan, Yifu Zhuang, Xin Wang, Jie Zhao, Tingting Tang and Kerong Dai
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:157
  8. The use of human pluripotent stem cell-derived retinal cells for cell therapy strategies and disease modelling relies on the ability to obtain healthy and organised retinal tissue in sufficient quantities. Gen...

    Authors: Patrick Ovando-Roche, Emma L. West, Matthew J. Branch, Robert D. Sampson, Milan Fernando, Peter Munro, Anastasios Georgiadis, Matteo Rizzi, Magdalena Kloc, Arifa Naeem, Joana Ribeiro, Alexander J. Smith, Anai Gonzalez-Cordero and Robin R. Ali
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:156
  9. Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) therapy is a promising treatment for several degenerative ocular diseases; however, no reproducible method of monitoring these cells into the eye has been est...

    Authors: Carolina Assis P. Vilela, Lucas Eduardo B. Souza, Rubens C. Siqueira, Rodrigo T. Calado, Dimas T. Covas and Jayter S. Paula
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:155
  10. Neural stem cells (NSCs) play vital roles in brain homeostasis and exhibit a broad repertoire of potentially therapeutic actions following neurovascular injury. One such injury is stroke, a worldwide leading c...

    Authors: Austin C. Boese, Quan-Son Eric Le, Dylan Pham, Milton H. Hamblin and Jean-Pyo Lee
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:154
  11. Airway disease is a primary cause of morbidity and early mortality for patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Cell transplantation therapy has proven successful for treating immune disorders and may have the pote...

    Authors: Nigel Farrow, Patricia Cmielewski, Martin Donnelley, Nathan Rout-Pitt, Yuben Moodley, Ivan Bertoncello and David Parsons
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:153
  12. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a motor neuron (MN) disease characterized by the loss of MNs in the central nervous system. As MNs die, patients progressively lose their ability to control voluntary mov...

    Authors: Michal Izrael, Shalom Guy Slutsky, Tamar Admoni, Louisa Cohen, Avital Granit, Arik Hasson, Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor, Lena Krush Paker, Graciela Kuperstein, Neta Lavon, Shiran Yehezkel Ionescu, Leonardo Javier Solmesky, Rachel Zaguri, Alina Zhuravlev, Ella Volman, Judith Chebath…
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:152

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:241

  13. Aging is one of the key factors that regulate the function of human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hBM-MSCs) and related changes in microRNA (miRNA) expression. However, data reported on aging-related miR...

    Authors: Jun Dong, Zhenhui Zhang, Hongshen Huang, Pei Mo, Chuanfan Cheng, Jianwei Liu, Weizhao Huang, Chaowei Tian, Chongyu Zhang and Jiao Li
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:151
  14. Thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO), also known as Buerger’s Disease, is an occlusive vasculitis linked with high morbidity and amputation risk. To date, TAO is deemed incurable due to the lack of a definitive tr...

    Authors: Jorge D. Martin-Rufino, Francisco S. Lozano, Alba M. Redondo, Eva M. Villaron, Raquel Rueda, Rafael Fernandez-Samos and Fermin Sanchez-Guijo
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:150
  15. Although typically cultured at an atmospheric oxygen concentration (20–21%), adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) reside under considerable low oxygen tension (physioxia) in vivo. In the present study, we explore...

    Authors: Chang Chen, Qi Tang, Yan Zhang, Mei Yu, Wei Jing and Weidong Tian
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:148
  16. Human induced pluripotent stem cells-derived mesenchymal stem cells (iPSC-MSCs) have been shown to be effective in Type 2 helper T cells (Th2)-dominant eosinophilic allergic airway inflammation. However, the r...

    Authors: Shu-Bin Fang, Hong-Yu Zhang, Ai-Yun Jiang, Xing-Liang Fan, Yong-Dong Lin, Cheng-Lin Li, Cong Wang, Xiang-Ci Meng and Qing-Ling Fu
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:147
  17. Endometrial regenerative cells (ERCs), a novel type of mesenchymal-like stem cell derived from menstrual blood, have been recently evaluated as an attractive candidate source in ulcerative colitis (UC); howeve...

    Authors: Xiaoxi Xu, Yong Wang, Baoren Zhang, Xu Lan, Shanzheng Lu, Peng Sun, Xiang Li, Ganggang Shi, Yiming Zhao, Hongqiu Han, Caigan Du and Hao Wang
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:146
  18. Multiple myeloma (MM) currently remains largely incurable. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are believed to be responsible for drug resistance and eventual relapse. In this study, we exploited a novel agent to evaluat...

    Authors: Fangfang Shi, Miao Li, Jing Wang, Di Wu, Meng Pan, Mei Guo and Jun Dou
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:144
  19. The ability of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to migrate to the desired tissues or lesions is crucial for stem cell-based regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. Optimal therapeutics for promoting MSC mig...

    Authors: Yingchi Zhang, Jiyuan Yan, Haoran Xu, Yong Yang, Wenkai Li, Hua Wu and Chaoxu Liu
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:143
  20. Most common forms of hair loss (alopecia) are caused by aberrant hair follicle cycling and changes in hair follicle morphology. However, current treatments for alopecia do not specifically target these process...

    Authors: Rami Anderi, Nehman Makdissy, Albert Azar, Francine Rizk and Aline Hamade
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:141
  21. Differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) into retinal lineages offers great potential for medical application. Therefore, it is of crucial importance to know the key intrinsic regulator...

    Authors: Jen-Hua Chuang, Aliaksandr A. Yarmishyn, De-Kuang Hwang, Chih-Chien Hsu, Mong-Lien Wang, Yi-Ping Yang, Ke-Hung Chien, Shih-Hwa Chiou, Chi-Hsien Peng and Shih-Jen Chen
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:140
  22. Ischemic stroke causes a multitude of brain damage. Neurovascular injury and myelin sheath degradation are two manifestations of ischemic brain damage. Therapeutic strategies aiming only at repairing the neura...

    Authors: Yaning Li, Shuang Chang, Wanlu Li, Guanghui Tang, Yuanyuan Ma, Yanqun Liu, Fang Yuan, Zhijun Zhang, Guo-Yuan Yang and Yongting Wang
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:139
  23. Due to their extensive self-renewal and multilineage differentiation capacity, human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) have great potential for studying developmental biology, disease modeling, and developing cell ...

    Authors: Chuti Laowtammathron, Pimjai Chingsuwanrote, Roungsin Choavaratana, Suphadtra Phornwilardsiri, Ketsara Sitthirit, Chidchanok Kaewjunun, Orawan Makemaharn, Papussorn Terbto, Supaporn Waeteekul, Chanchao Lorthongpanich, Yaowalak U-pratya, Pimonwan Srisook, Pakpoom Kheolamai and Surapol Issaragrisil
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:138
  24. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are a heterogeneous subset of stromal cells currently tested for multiple therapeutic purposes. Their potential to home into tumors, to secrete trophic/vasculogenic factors, and t...

    Authors: Flavia Bruna, Anita Plaza, Martha Arango, Iris Espinoza and Paulette Conget
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:137
  25. Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) are sustained by an increasing number of patients each year worldwide. The treatment of SCIs has long been a hard nut to crack for doctors around the world. Mesenchymal stem cells (...

    Authors: Chaohua Yang, Gaoju Wang, Fenfen Ma, Baoqing Yu, Fancheng Chen, Jin Yang, Jianjun Feng and Qing Wang
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:136
  26. Adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) play a crucial role in the maintenance of tissue homeostasis and in regenerative processes. Among the different MSC types, the gingiva-derived mesenchymal stem cells (GMSCs)...

    Authors: Chiara Giacomelli, Letizia Natali, Marco Nisi, Marinella De Leo, Simona Daniele, Barbara Costa, Filippo Graziani, Mario Gabriele, Alessandra Braca, M. Letizia Trincavelli and Claudia Martini
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:135
  27. A variety of neurological disorders including neurodegenerative diseases and infection by neurotropic viruses can cause structural and functional changes in the central nervous system (CNS), resulting in long-...

    Authors: Leonardo D’Aiuto, Jennifer Naciri, Nicholas Radio, Sesha Tekur, Dennis Clayton, Gerard Apodaca, Roberto Di Maio, Yun Zhi, Peter Dimitrion, Paolo Piazza, Matthew Demers, Joel Wood, Charleen Chu, Jason Callio, Lora McClain, Robert Yolken…
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:134
  28. Peripheral nerve injury (PNI) is a worldwide issue associated with severe social and economic burden. Autologous nerve grafting, the gold standard treatment for peripheral nerve defects, still has a number of ...

    Authors: Xun Sun, Yun Zhu, He-yong Yin, Zhi-yuan Guo, Feng Xu, Bo Xiao, Wen-li Jiang, Wei-min Guo, Hao-ye Meng, Shi-bi Lu, Yu Wang and Jiang Peng
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:133
  29. The subcellular distribution of prorenin receptor and adaptor protein ATP6AP2 may affect neurogenesis. In this study, we hypothesized that ATP6AP2 expression and subcellular relocalization from caveolae/lipid ...

    Authors: Nehman Makdissy, Katia Haddad, Jeanne D’arc AlBacha, Diana Chaker, Bassel Ismail, Albert Azar, Ghada Oreibi, David Ayoub, Ibrahim Achkar, Didier Quilliot and Ziad Fajloun
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:132
  30. Adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) hold great promise for regenerative medicine because of their self-renewal, multipotency, and trophic and immunosuppressive effects. Due to the rareness and high heterogenei...

    Authors: Yueh-Hsun Kevin Yang, Courtney R. Ogando, Carmine Wang See, Tsui-Yun Chang and Gilda A. Barabino
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:131
  31. The stromal vascular fraction (SVF) derived from adipose tissue contains adipose-derived stromal/stem cells (ASC) and can be used for regenerative applications. Thus, a validated protocol for SVF isolation, fr...

    Authors: Francesco Agostini, Francesca Maria Rossi, Donatella Aldinucci, Monica Battiston, Elisabetta Lombardi, Stefania Zanolin, Samuele Massarut, Pier Camillo Parodi, Alessandro Da Ponte, Giovanni Tessitori, Barbara Pivetta, Cristina Durante and Mario Mazzucato
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:130
  32. Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) therapy has been widely recognized as a feasible strategy for regenerating injured myocardial tissue. However, little is known about the efficacy of intravenous injec...

    Authors: Meikuang Lim, Weiqiang Wang, Lu Liang, Zhi-bo Han, Zongjin Li, Jie Geng, Meng Zhao, Honghong Jia, Jie Feng, Zhe Wei, Baoquan Song, Jiemin Zhang, Jun Li, Tianwen Liu, Fan Wang, Ting Li…
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:129
  33. Canine MuStem cells have demonstrated regenerative efficacy in a dog model of muscular dystrophy, and the recent characterization of human counterparts (hMuStem) has highlighted the therapeutic potential of th...

    Authors: Charlotte Saury, Aurélie Lardenois, Cindy Schleder, Isabelle Leroux, Blandine Lieubeau, Laurent David, Marine Charrier, Laëtitia Guével, Sabrina Viau, Bruno Delorme and Karl Rouger
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:128
  34. Adult bone marrow contains stem cells that replenish the myeloid and lymphoid lineages. A subset of human and mouse CD34+ bone marrow stem cells can be propagated in culture to autonomously express embryonic stem...

    Authors: Tapas Makar, Vamshi K. Nimmagadda, Poornachander R. Guda, Brian Hampton, Weiliang Huang, Maureen A. Kane, Paul S. Fishman, Bernard Pessac, Christopher T. Bever Jr. and David Trisler
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:127
  35. Although adult human tissue-derived epidermal stem cells are capable of differentiating into enamel-secreting ameloblasts and forming teeth with regenerated enamel when recombined with mouse dental mesenchyme ...

    Authors: Xuefeng Hu, Jyh-Wei Lee, Xi Zheng, Junhua Zhang, Xin Lin, Yingnan Song, Bingmei Wang, Xiaoxiao Hu, Hao-Hueng Chang, Yiping Chen, Chun-Pin Lin and Yanding Zhang
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:126
  36. Adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) that show multidifferentiation and anti-immune rejection capacities have been widely used in plastic and reconstructive surgery. Previous studies have indicated that mechanica...

    Authors: Yiting Yang, Rongmei Qu, Tingyu Fan, Xi Zhu, Yanting Feng, Yuchao Yang, Ting Deng, Yan Peng, Wenhua Huang, Jun Ouyang and Jingxing Dai
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:125
  37. The use of platelet lysate (PL) for the ex-vivo expansion of mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSCs) was initially proposed by Doucet et al. in 2005, as an alternative to animal serum. Moreover, regulatory autho...

    Authors: Valentina Becherucci, Luisa Piccini, Serena Casamassima, Silvia Bisin, Valentina Gori, Francesca Gentile, Riccardo Ceccantini, Elena De Rienzo, Barbara Bindi, Paola Pavan, Vanessa Cunial, Elisa Allegro, Stefano Ermini, Francesca Brugnolo, Giuseppe Astori and Franco Bambi
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:124
  38. Synovial mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are an attractive cell source for cartilage and meniscus regeneration. Synovial tissue can be histologically classified into three regions; surface, stromal and perivascu...

    Authors: Mitsuru Mizuno, Hisako Katano, Yo Mabuchi, Yusuke Ogata, Shizuko Ichinose, Shizuka Fujii, Koji Otabe, Keiichiro Komori, Nobutake Ozeki, Hideyuki Koga, Kunikazu Tsuji, Chihiro Akazawa, Takeshi Muneta and Ichiro Sekiya
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:123
  39. α6-Integrin subunit (also known as CD49f) is a stemness signature that has been found on the plasma membrane of more than 30 stem cell populations. A growing body of studies have focused on the critical role o...

    Authors: Zijing Zhou, Jing Qu, Li He, Hong Peng, Ping Chen and Yong Zhou
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:122
  40. Bone marrow-derived allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from young healthy donors are immunoprivileged and their clinical application for regenerative medicine is under evaluation. However, data from prec...

    Authors: Niketa Sareen, Glen Lester Sequiera, Rakesh Chaudhary, Ejlal Abu-El-Rub, Subir Roy Chowdhury, Vikram Sharma, Arun Surendran, Meenal Moudgil, Paul Fernyhough, Amir Ravandi and Sanjiv Dhingra
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:121
  41. We have previously demonstrated that acidic preconditioning of human endothelial colony-forming cells (ECFC) increased proliferation, migration, and tubulogenesis in vitro, and increased their regenerative pot...

    Authors: Hebe Agustina Mena, Paula Romina Zubiry, Blandine Dizier, Mirta Schattner, Catherine Boisson-Vidal and Soledad Negrotto
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:120
  42. Red blood cells are the most abundant cells in the blood that deliver oxygen to the whole body. Erythropoietin (EPO), a positive regulator of erythropoiesis, is currently the major treatment for chronic anemia...

    Authors: Tzu-Lin Chen, Ya-Wen Chiang, Guan-Ling Lin, Hsin-Hou Chang, Te-Sheng Lien, Min-Hua Sheh and Der-Shan Sun
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:119
  43. Critical tissues that undergo regeneration in periodontal tissue are of mesenchymal origin; thus, investigating the regulatory mechanisms underlying the fate of periodontal ligament stem cells could be benefic...

    Authors: Shan Yang, Lijia Guo, Yingying Su, Jing Wen, Juan Du, Xiaoyan Li, Yitong Liu, Jie Feng, Yongmei Xie, Yuxing Bai, Hao Wang and Yi Liu
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:118
  44. Employing growth factor-induced partial reprogramming in vitro, peripheral human blood monocytes can acquire a state of plasticity along with expression of various markers of pluripotency. These so-called prog...

    Authors: Rouven Berndt, Lars Hummitzsch, Katharina Heß, Martin Albrecht, Karina Zitta, Rene Rusch, Beke Sarras, Andreas Bayer, Jochen Cremer, Fred Faendrich and Justus Groß
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:117
  45. We recently demonstrated that autologous transplantation of mobilized dental pulp stem cells (MDPSCs) was a safe and efficacious potential therapy for total pulp regeneration in a clinical study. The autologou...

    Authors: Koichiro Iohara, Shinji Utsunomiya, Sakae Kohara and Misako Nakashima
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:116
  46. In the study by Sarveazad et al. adipose tissue-derived stem cells were injected to reinforce anal sphincter repair. The authors came to the conclusion that injection of stem cells during repair surgery for fe...

    Authors: Mohammed Mohammed El-Said and Sameh Hany Emile
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:115

    The original article was published in Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2017 8:40

  47. Established therapies for managing kidney dysfunction such as kidney dialysis and transplantation are limited due to the shortage of compatible donated organs and high costs. Stem cell-based therapies are curr...

    Authors: Md Shaifur Rahman, Lucas-Sebastian Spitzhorn, Wasco Wruck, Carsten Hagenbeck, Percy Balan, Nina Graffmann, Martina Bohndorf, Audrey Ncube, Pascale V. Guillot, Tanja Fehm and James Adjaye
    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2018 9:113

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