Tissue engineering technologies, which have originally been designed to reconstitute
damaged tissue structure and function, can mimic not only tissue regeneration processes …

Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) are progenitors which share plastic-adherence
capacity and cell surface markers but have different properties according to their cell and …

Pentatransmembrane glycoprotein prominin-1 (CD133) is expressed at the cell surface of
multiple somatic stem cells, and it is widely used as a cell surface marker for the isolation …

Lifelong hematopoiesis is sustained by a very small number of hematopoietic stem cells
capable of self-renewal and differentiation into multiple hematopoietic lineages. The …

We previously demonstrated that subretinal injection (SRI) of isogenic mesenchymal stem
cells (MSCs) reduced the severity of retinal degeneration in Royal College of Surgeons rats …

The transplantation of cultured stem and progenitor cells is a key element in the rapidly
growing field of regenerative medicine. Based on their ability to rescue and/or repair injured …

Cancer is associated with globally hypoacetylated chromatin and considerable attention has
recently been focused on epigenetic therapies. N-acetyl-L-aspartate (NAA), the primary …

Tissue engineered blood vessels (TEBVs) hold great promise for clinical use in patients with
end stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring vascular access for hemodialysis. A promising …

The repair of skeletal defects remains a substantial economic and biomedical burden. The
extra-embryonic fetal stem cells derived from amniotic fluid (AFSCs) have been used for the …

Our group discovered prominin-1 in search for markers to study the cell polarity of neural
stem and progenitor cells in the developing brain. Over the past 15 years, prominin-1, also …