Stem Cell Therapy: Repurposing Cell-Based Regenerative Medicine Beyond Cell Replacement

Author(s):  
Eleonora Napoli ◽  
Trenton Lippert ◽  
Cesar V. Borlongan
2009 ◽  
Vol 84 (10) ◽  
pp. 859-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy O'Brien ◽  
Frank P. Barry

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle R. Santoso ◽  
Phillip C. Yang

Stem cell therapy has broad applications in regenerative medicine and increasingly within cardiovascular disease. Stem cells have emerged as a leading therapeutic option for many diseases and have broad applications in regenerative medicine. Injuries to the heart are often permanent due to the limited proliferation and self-healing capability of cardiomyocytes; as such, stem cell therapy has become increasingly important in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Despite extensive efforts to optimize cardiac stem cell therapy, challenges remain in the delivery and monitoring of cells injected into the myocardium. Other fields have successively used nanoscience and nanotechnology for a multitude of biomedical applications, including drug delivery, targeted imaging, hyperthermia, and tissue repair. In particular, superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) have been widely employed for molecular and cellular imaging. In this mini-review, we focus on the application of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles in targeting and monitoring of stem cells for the treatment of myocardial infarctions.


2012 ◽  
Vol 73 (12) ◽  
pp. 1287-1294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique Charron ◽  
Caroline Suberbielle-Boissel ◽  
Ryad Tamouza ◽  
Reem Al-Daccak

Author(s):  
Nagendra Kumar Chandrawanshi ◽  
Shekhar Verma

Cancer is the most prevalent and dangerous disease, and it leads to millions of deaths worldwide. Generally, metastatic cancer cells are not eradication by conventional surgical operative or chemotherapy-based treatment. New pathways have been established in various arenas such as unique biology, modulators regulatory mechanism, directional migration, self-renewal, etc. The individual pathways can be employed as therapeutic carriers, specific drug targeting, generation of acquiring nature immune cells, and regenerative medicine. The present scenario, stem cell therapy, focused on a promising tool for targeted cancer treatment. Stem cells also utilized as viruses and nanoparticles carry to enhance the primary therapeutic application in various dimensions such as cancer target therapy, regenerative medicine, immune-modulating therapy, and anticancer drugs screening. Furthermore, the rapid development in next-generation sequencing techniques and cancer genomics and proteomics analysis approaches are making therapeutics targeting organ-specific cancer more precise and efficient.


2015 ◽  
Vol 93 (10) ◽  
pp. 835-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jagjit Padda ◽  
Glen Lester Sequiera ◽  
Niketa Sareen ◽  
Sanjiv Dhingra

Cardiac injury and loss of cardiomyocytes is a causative as well as a resultant condition of cardiovascular disorders, which are the leading cause of death throughout the world. This loss of cardiomyocytes cannot be completely addressed through the currently available drugs being administered, which mainly function only in relieving the symptoms. There is a huge potential being investigated for regenerative and cell replacement therapies through recruiting stem cells of various origins namely embryonic, reprogramming/induction, and adult tissue. These sources are being actively studied for translation to clinical scenarios. In this review, we attempt to discuss some of these promising scenarios, including the clinical trials and the obstacles that need to be overcome, and hope to address the direction in which stem cell therapy is heading.


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