Stem cell therapy for digestive tract diseases: Current state and future perspectives

Stem Cells and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1113-1129

  Lopez, Jacobo Trebol ^a   Georgiev Hristov, Tihomir ^a   García Arranz, Mariano ^a   García Olmo, Damián ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTE; ADULT STEM CELL; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ANUS FISTULA; CELIAC DISEASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CROHN DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENTERITIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; ISCHEMIA; LARGE INTESTINE DISEASE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NEOPLASM; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; STOMACH ULCER;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOMODULATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 79953692198     PISSN: 15473287     EISSN: 15578534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/scd.2010.0277     Document Type: Review

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