Pediatric neurological disorders including muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, and spinal cord injury are defined as a heterogenous group of diseases, of which some are known to be genetic. The two significant features represented for stem cells, leading to distinguish them from other cell types are addressed as below: they can renew themselves besides the ability to differentiate into cells wi...

INTRODUCTION Surgical repair of tendon, including rotator cuff injury, are common procedures, however structural failure of the surgical repair is a common complication of the surgery, and in some instances there is a need to replace injured tendon. There is therefore a recognized need to generate tissue engineered tendons for repair and replacement of damaged or diseased tendon (Derwin et al, ...