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Purified Human Skeletal Muscle-Derived Stem Cells Enhance the Repair and Regeneration in the Damaged Urethra.
Transplantation - 1 Oct 2017
Nakajima Nobuyuki, Tamaki Tetsuro, Hirata Maki, Soeda Shuichi, Nitta Masahiro, Hoshi Akio, Terachi Toshiro
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BACKGROUND: Postoperative damage of the urethral rhabdosphincter and nerve-vascular networks is a major complication of radical prostatectomy and generally causes incontinence and/or erectile dysfunction. The human skeletal muscle-derived stem cells, which have a synchronized reconstitution capacity of muscle-nerve-blood vessel units, were applied to this damage. METHODS: Cells were enzymatically extracted from...
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