BioMed Research International

Toward Personalized Cell Therapies by Using Stem Cells 2013


Publishing date
01 Nov 2013
Status
Published
Submission deadline
14 Jun 2013

Lead Editor
Guest Editors

1Department of Immunology, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya 464-8550, Japan

2University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA

3School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China


Toward Personalized Cell Therapies by Using Stem Cells 2013

Description

Because there are many patients waiting for curative therapy for intractable diseases such as renal failure and liver cirrhosis, we foresee a heavy demand on the technology offered by regenerative medicine. In current transplantation medicine such as renal transplantation, many patients still have chronic rejection or side effects of nonspecific immunosuppression. Recent advances in stem cell research have raised the possibility of personalized cell therapies for treating human diseases. In particular, Yamanaka’s group in Japan gave new hope to scientists, patients, and the public when they developed induced murine pluripotent stem (iPS) cells in 2006 and human iPS cells in 2007. Thus, stem cell therapy using iPS or mesenchymal stem cells could open new therapeutic options.

We invite researchers to contribute original research articles as well as review articles, which will stimulate the future investigations toward personalized cell therapy using stem cells. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Development of new technologies for generating iPS cells
  • Disease-specific induced pluripotent stem cells
  • Differentiation of iPS cells or other stem cells to organs or tissue cells
  • Transplantation of stem cells to disease model animal
  • Treatment of disease by pluripotent stem cells

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Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 534047
  • - Editorial

Toward Personalized Cell Therapies by Using Stem Cells 2013

Ken-ichi Isobe | Herman S. Cheung | Ji Wu
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 573169
  • - Research Article

Intravenous Transplantation of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells to Enhance Peripheral Nerve Regeneration

Stella M. Matthes | Kerstin Reimers | ... | Christine Radtke
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 151679
  • - Research Article

Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Provide Protection against Radiation-Induced Liver Injury by Antioxidative Process, Vasculature Protection, Hepatocyte Differentiation, and Trophic Effects

Sabine Francois | Moubarak Mouiseddine | ... | Alain Chapel
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 929842
  • - Review Article

From Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms to Constant Immunosuppression: Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Autoimmune Diseases

Raghavan Chinnadurai | Edmund K. Waller | ... | Ajay K. Nooka
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 259187
  • - Research Article

Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Like Cells Derived from Mouse Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Ameliorate Diabetic Polyneuropathy in Mice

Tatsuhito Himeno | Hideki Kamiya | ... | Jiro Nakamura
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 416391
  • - Review Article

Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Cells for Bone Regereneration: State of the Art

Marta Barba | Claudia Cicione | ... | Wanda Lattanzi
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 430290
  • - Review Article

Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Basic Research to Potential Clinical Applications in Cancer

Teresa de Souza Fernandez | Cecilia de Souza Fernandez | André Luiz Mencalha
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 656531
  • - Review Article

Biomedical and Clinical Promises of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells for Neurological Disorders

Nopporn Jongkamonwiwat | Parinya Noisa
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 930713
  • - Review Article

Stem Cell Therapy in Bladder Dysfunction: Where Are We? And Where Do We Have to Go?

Jae Heon Kim | Sang-Rae Lee | ... | Hong Jun Lee
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 532720
  • - Research Article

Sympathetic Innervation Induced in Engrafted Engineered Cardiomyocyte Sheets by Glial Cell Line Derived Neurotrophic Factor In Vivo

Xian-ming Fu | Jong-Kook Lee | ... | Yuichi Ueda
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