MacroPore - adipose-derived cells - potential to engraft & differentiate into heart muscle
...e-derived regenerative cells have the potential to engraft injured myocardium and express markers consistent with differentiation into cardiac myocytes. These results provide early indication that adipose-derived regenerative cells, which include adult stem cells, endothelial progenitor cells and other growt...Embryonic pig cell transplants halt rat diabetes
... the transplanted islets engraft, and many that do engraft die after a period of time." Third, islets are composed of mature cells unable to respond to increased need for their services by dividing and producing more cells. In contrast, embryonic pancreas cells divide readily in response to such ne...University of Pittsburgh named cooperative research center for muscular dystrophy
...ry and bioengineering, will attempt to deliver and engraft muscle stem cells into diseased heart tissue without causing an immune response. Dr. Huard, who also is a deputy director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and director of the Growth and Development Laboratory at Children's Hospital ...Adult bone marrow stem cells can become blood vessels
...(which line blood- and lymphatic vessels) and then engraft in vivo and contribute to new growth of blood vessels (neoangiogenesis). The findings will be published in the February 1, 2002 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. "These lab results demonstrate the potential of adult bone marrow stem ce...Researchers identify potential for prenatal gene therapy
...ogenitor cells (MAPCs), or bone marrow stem cells, engraft and differentiate into brain and liver cells after in utero transfer. Their results support the possibility of future clinical use of adult bone marrow stem cells in attempts to correct neurological, hepatic, muscular and possibly other types of cong...Yale and Alexion report advance in spinal cord repair
... which showed that these transgenic pig cells both engraft and restoreelectrical conductance in rodent models of spinal injury, these data suggestthat this approach may lead to the development of a new therapy for spinal cordinjury patients." Specific antibody binding to the surface of a foreign cell initia......ng pregnancy, sonon-self maternal cells could also engraft and persist in a child. To explore further whether microchimerism, this intermixing of very low levelsof non-self cells with one's own, might be involved in scleroderma, they did asecond substudy. Here they investigated whether a women who has give...