Harvesting the potential of the human umbilical cord: Isolation and characterisation of four cell types for tissue engineering applications

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-54

  Hayward, Cindy J ^a,b   Fradette, Julie ^a,b   Galbraith, Todd ^a,b   Rémy, Murielle ^a   Guignard, Rina ^a,b   Gauvin, Robert ^a,b   Germain, Lucie ^a,b   Auger, François A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier   (Canada)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell isolation; Epithelial cells; Tissue engineering; Umbilical cord; Wharton's jelly cells

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; CYTOKERATIN 12; CYTOKERATIN 16; CYTOKERATIN 18; CYTOKERATIN 19; DESMIN; ELASTIN; VIMENTIN;

ADIPOCYTE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPLANT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMERSION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; OSTEOBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THAWING; TISSUE ENGINEERING; UMBILICAL CORD;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; STROMAL CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 84871040754     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: 14226421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000341254     Document Type: Article

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