Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) or adult multipotent progenitor with the ability to self-renew and differentiate, are extracted from a variety of tissues, including bone marrow, adipose tissue, umbilical cord blood, Wharton’s jelly, tooth pulp, menstrual others. Since they multipotent, cultured MSCs can differentiate into adipogenic, chondrogenic, osteogenic lineages after being isolated. Due the...

Umbilical cord can be considered as a source of stem cells with a wide differentiates capacity. It also supplies the embryos with blood contains oxygen and vital nutritional elements and may change by some abnormalities during embryo development. The study of different aspects of umbilical cord biology is critical for understanding of pathology and the way of its application in a stem cell ther...

Treatment of injuries to peripheral nerves after a segmental defect is one the most challenging surgicalproblems. Therapies for injury are largely ineffective. Therefore, current study wasconducted investigate effects either acellular human umbilical cord tissue powder on repair 1 cm criticalsize radial nerve guided by bovine urinary bladder matrix conduit alone or seeded with mesenchymalstem c...

background: endometriosis is a common, benign, oestrogen-dependent, chronic gynaecological disorder associated with pelvic pain and infertility. some researchers have identified nerve fibers in endometriotic lesions in women with endometriosis. mesenchymal stem cells (mscs) have attracted interest for their possible use for both cell and gene therapies because of their capacity for self-renewal...

umbilical cord blood (ucb) as a source of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (hspcs) used for umbilical cord blood transplantation (ucbt). the main obstacle in application of this source as an appropriate source of hspcs is low volume of this product. so ex vivo expansion of these cells in a microenvironment which mimic body condition is important. in current study we designed biocompatible mi...

I t is our anticipation and hope that stem cells will cure type 1 diabetes someday because of their limitless capacity to differentiate as needed into the vital tissue or organ. In theory, pluripotent cells have the capacity to reprogram a hostile immune response to tolerate pancreatic -cells and to regenerate pancreatic -cell mass. These two factors are the necessary ingredients for reversing ...

Experimental results accumulated during last decade suggest that human perinatal tissues such as placenta, fetal membranes, and umbilical cord, as well as perinatal fluids such as, amniotic fluid and umbilical cord blood, harbour different amounts of multipotent precursor cells, called extra-embryonic mesenchymal stem cells (EE-MSCs). Perinatal EE-MSCs represent an intermediate cell type betwee...

The Wharton's jelly of the umbilical cord is believed to be a source of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) which can be therapeutically applied in degenerative diseases.In this study, we investigated the immunomodulatory effect of umbilical cord derived-mesenchymal stem cells (UC-MSCs) and bone marrow-derived-mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) on differentiation, maturation, and endocytosis of monocyt...