Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells as a delivery platform in cell and gene therapies

BMC Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  D'souza, Naomi ^a   Rossignoli, Filippo ^a   Golinelli, Giulia ^a   Grisendi, Giulia ^a   Spano, Carlotta ^a   Candini, Olivia ^a   Osturu, Satoru ^b   Catani, Fabio ^a   Paolucci, Paolo ^a   Horwitz, Edwin M ^b   Dominici, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; gene therapy; microvesicles; MSC; secretion

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE KINASE; ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; INSULIN; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; LIPOSOME; PLASMID DNA; SCATTER FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2;

ADIPOSE DERIVED STEM CELL; BCL 2 GENE; BONE DEFECT; BONE DISEASE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL BASED GENE THERAPY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL THERAPY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DNA MODIFICATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; IL 6 GENE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN GENE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIPOSOMAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MIP 2 GENE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; STROMA CELL; TNF ALPHA GENE; TNF GENE; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE THERAPY; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; WOUND HEALING;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL- AND TISSUE-BASED THERAPY; GENETIC THERAPY; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84938824912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-015-0426-0     Document Type: Review

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