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A chemically defined carrier for the delivery of human mesenchymal stem/stromal cells to skin wounds.
Tissue engineering. Part C, Methods - 1 Feb 2012
Walker Nathan G, Mistry Anita R, Smith Louise E, Eves Paula C, Tsaknakis Grigorios, Forster Simon, Watt Suzanne M, Macneil Sheila
Abstract excerpt
Skin has a remarkable capacity for regeneration, but age- and diabetes-related vascular problems lead to chronic non-healing wounds for many thousands of U.K. patients. There is a need for new therapeutic approaches to treat these resistant wounds. Donor mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) have been shown to assist cutaneous wound healing by accelerating re-epithelialization. The aim of this work was to devise...
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