Hajar Shafaei

Department of Anatomical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

[ 1 ] - Study of chondrogenic potential of stem cells in co-culture with chondrons

Objective(s): Three-dimensional biomimetic scaffolds have widespread applications in biomedical tissue engineering due to similarity of their nanofibrous architecture to native extracellular matrix. Co-culture system has stimulatory effect on chondrogenesis of adult mesenchymal stem cells. This work presents a co-culture strategy using human articular chondrons and adipose-derived stem cells (A...

[ 2 ] - بررسی مورفولوژی و ایمونوفنوتیپ سلولهای بنیادی مزانشیمی بعد از تعویض سرم گاوی محیط کشت به سرم انسانی

Background: Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) are used for cell therapy purposes. Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) in culture media is essential for growth. As FBS may induce an immunological reaction and transfer pathogenic agents to MSC recipients, this study was designed to evaluate Adipose Tissue Stem Cells (ASCs) in FBS, human serum, switching of FBS to human serum and vice versa by cytology and flow ...

[ 3 ] - High Quality of Infant Chondrocytes in Comparison with Adult Chondrocytes for Cartilage Tissue Engineering

BACKGROUND Tissue engineering is used for the treatment of many diseases, and the ideal cell source for cartilage tissue engineering is chondrocytes. The main limitation of chondrocyte is the low number of cells in cartilage tissue engineering. This study investigated a suitable cell source with high proliferation rate to obtain a large number of chondrocytes. METHODS Adult cartilage t...