Fetal cell/tissue therapy in adult disease: A new horizon in regenerative medicine

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 167-173

  Bhattacharya, N ^a,b  

^a Bijoygarh State Hospital   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Fetal cell therapy; GVH; Host integration; Regenerative medicine; Stem cell rich human fetal tissue transplant

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN;

APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTHRITIS; BIOENGINEERING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CELL CONTACT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ELONGATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEVICE; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; DONOR; DRUG COATING; FETAL ADRENAL TRANSPLANTATION; FETAL BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANT; FETAL CELL THERAPY; FETAL THYMIC TRANSPLANT; FETUS; FETUS CELL; FETUS LIVER; FETUS LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMPLANT; LEUKOPENIA; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEUROTRANSPLANTATION; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PLACENTAL UMBILICAL CORD WHOLE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; REGENERATION; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW; STEM CELL; STENT; TH2 CELL; TISSUE REGENERATION; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FETUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 4644343659     PISSN: 03906663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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