In recent years, the potential of cartilage tissue engineering techniques employing mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to repair damaged human cartilage and defects has generated much interest. Traditionally, sources of MSCs included patient’s own bone marrow. However, little have been reported on adult peripheral blood (PB) as a source of MSCs, which has been a subject of much debate amongst scient...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in men and the second in women worldwide, accounting for almost 10 % of all cases [1,2]. The USA and Europe have high rates compared to Africa and Asia [3,4]. Only in the United States, nearly 135,000 new cases diagnosed annually that about 50,000 people will die of the disease [5]. In Iran CRC is the third most common cancer in women and ...

BACKGROUND The activated leukocyte cell adhesion molecule (ALCAM, CD166) has been reported to be involved in tumorigenesis of colorectal cancer (CRC) and to function as a cancer stem cell marker. Controversial data exist regarding the prognostic power of ALCAM expression in CRC. Here, we evaluate the expression of ALCAM in a cohort of CRC patients and its usage as a prognostic marker for surviv...

OBJECTİVES: To evaluate the morphological characteristics, immunophenotypic features, osteogenic, adipogenic, and chondrogenic differentiation capacities of in-vitro cultured amniotic cells during culture process based on mesenchymal stem cell (MSC).
 MATERİAL/METHOD: This study used waste remaining after fetal karyotype determination with second-trimester culture. Cultured were morphologi...