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Mechanical signals can play a key role in regulating the chondrogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). The objective of this study was to determine if the long-term application of cyclic hydrostatic pressure could be used to improve the functional properties of carti...
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PMID: 21783134
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We demonstrate that neutrophils accumulate in the lung prior to the arrival of metastatic cells in mouse models of breast cancer. Tumor-entrained neutrophils (TENs) inhibit metastatic seeding in the lungs by generating H(2)O(2) and tumor secreted CCL2 is a critical mediator of optimal antimetastatic...
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PMID: 21907922
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We describe a protocol to differentiate murine Tol-DCs from bone marrow precursors in vitro. Importantly, Tol-DCs actively suppress T cells stimulated with immunogenic allogeneic DCs. Indeed, Tol-DCs generated using this approach can be useful in studying and characterising the immunoregulatory path...
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PMID: 20941609
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The use of stem cells is considered a promising therapy for tissue regeneration and repair, particularly for tissues injured through degeneration, ischemia and inflammation. Bone marrow (BM)-derived haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are rare populations of multipotent stem cells that...
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PMID: 21340505
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We examined the effect of gender, age, and in vitro culture on the basic properties (proliferation, differentiation, and immunosuppressive potential) of BM-MSCs. We found a decline in the progenitor frequencies from the BM of adult mice, lower MSC frequencies in all female donors, and an increase in...
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PMID: 21204633
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Fibrin glue (FG) is used in a variety of clinical applications and in the laboratory for localized and sustained release of factors potentially important for tissue engineering. However, the effect of different fibrinogen concentrations on FG scaffold delivery of bioactive adeno-asso...
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PMID: 21449684
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We transduced SATB2 into murine adult stem cells, and found that SATB2 significantly increased expression levels of bone matrix proteins, osteogenic transcription factors, and a potent angiogenic factor, vascular endothelial growth factor. Using an osterix (Osx) promoter-luciferase construct and cal...
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PMID: 21385070
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We employed EPCs seeded in PCL scaffold with surface-immobilized heparin and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). EPCs seeded on scaffolds with VEGF exhibited phosphorylation of the receptor. After 7 days of subcutaneous implantation in immunodeficient mice, heparin-immobilized PCL scaffolds w...
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PMID: 21395445
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We introduce a novel nanoparticle-enhanced biophysical stimulus based on the photoacoustic (PA) effect. We demonstrate that the PA effect differentiates bone marrow-derived marrow stromal cells (MSCs) grown on poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) polymer films toward osteoblasts. We further show tha...
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PMID: 21395444
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We investigated the involvement of ADO in the immunomodulation promoted by MSCs. Human T lymphocytes were activated and cultured with or without MSCs. Compared to lymphocytes cultured without MSCs, co-cultured lymphocytes were suppressed and expressed higher levels of ADORA2A and lower levels of ADA...
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PMID: 21546330
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We used a combination of genomic approaches, including next-generation sequencing and mass spectrometry-based genotyping, to identify mutations in samples of bone marrow aspirate from 439 patients with myelodysplastic syndromes. We then examined whether the mutation status for each gene was associat...
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PMID: 21714648
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We found that the degradation of aqueous based silk is much faster than HFIP based silk scaffolds. Also, HFIP based silk scaffolds supported the soft dental pulp formation better than the aqueous based silk scaffolds. No distinct hard tissue regeneration was found in any of the implants, with or wit...
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PMID: 21484985
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We first harvested a cell sheet from rabbit bone marrow stromal cells using a continuous culture method and a scraping technique. The obtained sheet was then cut into fragments of multicellular aggregates, each of which was composed of a certain number of cells, extracellular matrix, and intercellul...
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PMID: 21091305
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We suggest the need for further elucidation of the biology of Schwann cell differentiation and the signals for their derivation from MSC, in order to resolve these obstacles and to enable transplantation of MSC-derived Schwann cells as a therapeutic strategy in CNS injury....
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PMID: 21495967
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of 810-nm low level laser therapy (LLLT) on dendritic cells (DC) in vitro.
LLLT can enhance wound healing and increase cell proliferation and survival, and is used to treat inflammatory conditions. However there...
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PMID: 21214383
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Louis Yuge,
Akira Sasaki,
Yumi Kawahara,
Shu-liang Wu,
Masaya Matsumoto,
Tomotaka Manabe,
Teruyuki Kajiume,
Masaaki Takeda,
Takuro Magaki,
Tetsuya Takahashi,
Kaoru Kurisu and
Masayasu Matsumoto
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We investigated the activity of BMSCs under simulated microgravity conditions. Mouse BMSCs (mBMSCs) were isolated from C57BL/6 mice and harvested in 1G condition. Subjects were divided into 4 groups: cultured under simulated microgravity and 1G condition in growth medium and neural differentiation m...
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PMID: 20828292
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Tissue engineering approaches have been successfully used in repairing bone defects and have become a viable alternative to autologous bone. The aim of the present study was to investigate if a construct of porous beta-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP) combined with osteogenically induce...
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PMID: 21226625
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Human bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) with self-renewal and multiple differentiation potentials are considered a possible cell source for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. However, the limited amount of MSCs in bone marrow and the loss of differentiation capa...
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PMID: 20735179
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The purpose of this study was to determine if implantation of autologous bone-marrow-derived cells has the potential to treat stress urinary incontinence caused by intrinsic sphincter deficiency. Bone marrow cells harvested from femurs of New Zealand White rabbits were cultured for 1...
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PMID: 21091339
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We therefore investigated expression of cell surface antigens on human term placenta-derived MSC (pMSC) in more detail and correlated expression pattern to the osteogenic differentiation capacity of the MSC. We report that pMSC expressed the typical cell surface antigens at levels comparable to bone...
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PMID: 21047215
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Silvia Sartoris,
Marta Mazzocco,
Martina Tinelli,
Matteo Martini,
Federico Mosna,
Veronica Lisi,
Stefano Indraccolo,
Lidia Moserle,
Tiziana Cestari,
Anna Pia Riviera,
Francesco Bifari,
Giuseppe Tridente,
Giovanni Pizzolo and
Mauro Krampera
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We used BM-MSCs engineered with the murine interferon-alpha (IFN-α) gene (BM-MSCs/IFN-α) to assess in a mouse plasmacytoma model the efficacy of this approach toward neoplastic plasma cells. We found that IFN-α can be efficiently produced and delivered inside the tumor microenvironment. Subcutane...
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PMID: 20695752
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We demonstrate that human foreskin fibroblasts (HFFs) express an MSC-like immunophenotype and possess immunosuppressive properties similar to BMSCs but lack the capacity for osteogenic and adipogenic differentiation. HFFs suppressed human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) proliferation stimu...
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PMID: 20712449
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This brief overview summarises the main characteristics of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells and of adipose-derived stem cells: methods of obtention, phenotype, differentiation potential, hematopoiesis-supportive (stromal) capacity, and immunosuppressive properties. Two points are discussed in detai...
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PMID: 21447295
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A Scuto,
P Krejci,
L Popplewell,
J Wu,
Y Wang,
M Kujawski,
C Kowolik,
H Xin,
L Chen,
Y Wang,
L Kretzner,
H Yu,
W R Wilcox,
Y Yen,
S Forman and
R Jove
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We investigated the effects of a novel small-molecule JAK inhibitor (AZD1480) on IL-6/JAK signal transduction and its biological consequences on the human myeloma-derived cell lines U266 and Kms.11. At low micromolar concentrations, AZD1480 blocks cell proliferation and induces apoptosis of myeloma...
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PMID: 21164517
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We lack insight into the impact of structure and size for their capacity to affect immune responses.
This study addresses the importance of chemical structure, size, origin and presence of contaminants for the capacity of both dietary and non-food NSP to modulate DC. Of 28 NSP produc...
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PMID: 20938988
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Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) are part of the bone marrow stem cells repertoire which also includes the main stem cells population of the bone marrow, the hematopoietic stem cells. The main role of MSCs is to support hematopoiesis but they can also give rise to cells of the mesoder...
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PMID: 20955154
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The signaling mechanisms that regulate the recruitment of bone marrow (BM)-derived cells to the injured heart are not well known. Notch receptors mediate binary cell fate determination and may regulate the function of BM-derived cells. However, it is not known whether Notch1 signalin...
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PMID: 21321153
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Bone tissue engineering success strongly depends on our ability to develop new materials combining osteoconductive, osteoinductive and osteogenic properties. Recent studies suggest that biomaterials incorporating silanol (Si-OH) groups promote and maintain osteogenesis. The purpose o...
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PMID: 20653041
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Our recent in vitro study demonstrated that endothelial cells (ECs) might influence the differentiation of bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs). Therefore, the aim of this study was to describe this effect in vivo, using a rat calvarial bone defect model. BMSCs were isolated from femurs of two-donor Le...
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PMID: 21171154
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We evaluated the effects of bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), combined with natural coral scaffolds, on the repair of critical-sized bone defects in rabbit orbits. In vitro expanded rabbit bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) were transfected with human...
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PMID: 21252414
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We evaluated the effects of bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), combined with natural coral scaffolds, on the repair of critical-sized bone defects in rabbit orbits. In vitro expanded rabbit bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) were transfected with human...
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PMID: 21252414
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We mapped 2 differential transcriptome data of MSCs compared, one to mononuclear cells and the other to fibroblasts, onto the membrane proteome data, the analysis of which led to an identification of transmembrane 4 L6 family member 1 (TM4SF1) as a surface protein marker candidate that could discrim...
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PMID: 20486778
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These results suggest that oxidative stress caused by acute exercise induces an adaptive response responsible for the radioprotective effects of exercise training....
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PMID: 21326381
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We show that lysosomal membrane permeabilization (LMP) and cytosolic translocation of activated cathepsin D occur prior to activation of a mitochondrial pathway of macrophage apoptosis. Pharmacological inhibition or knockout of cathepsin D during pneumococcal infection blocked macrophage apoptosis....
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PMID: 21298030
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These results suggest that cells from different tissues have different potentials for differentiation. Furthermore, cells derived from rabbits with craniosynostosis were different from cells from wild-type rabbits. Interestingly, cells derived from the craniosynostotic rabbits were not uniformly mor...
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PMID: 20871482
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We have used bone marrow-derived cultured mast cell (BMCMC) engrafted mast cell-deficient c-kit-mutant mice (so-called "mast cell knock-in" mice) to show that mast cells can also have important antiinflammatory and immunosuppressive functions in vivo. An early study showed that mast cells can contri...
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PMID: 20941613
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We describe methods to generate tolerogenic Dex-DC derived from either human peripheral blood monocytes or rat bone marrow cells....
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PMID: 20941608
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We show that SDF-1 and VEGF, which are produced by tumors, increase Dll4 expression on recruited BM-VPC. Mechanistically, BM-VPC activated, in a Dll4-dependent manner, a transcriptional program on mature EC suggestive of EC activation and stabilization. BM-VPC induced ICAM-2 and Fibronectin expressi...
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PMID: 21483741
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Increasing evidence suggests that therapeutic angiogenesis strategies utilizing cytokines and stem cells are necessary to treat traumatic vascular events such as critical limb ischemia and peripheral artery disease. In this study, basic fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF-2) and granuloc...
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PMID: 20712534
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This study aims to assess the in vivo performance of cell-scaffold constructs composed of goat marrow stromal cells (GBMCs) and SPCL (a blend of starch with polycaprolactone) fibre mesh scaffolds at different stages of development, using an autologous model. GBMCs from iliac crests w...
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PMID: 20603869
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Self-assembling peptide hydrogels were modified to deliver transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1) to encapsulated bone-marrow-derived stromal cells (BMSCs) for cartilage tissue engineering applications using two different approaches: (i) biotin-streptavidin tethering; (ii) adsorpti...
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PMID: 20672992
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Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) has been reported to modulate angiogenesis, the process of new blood vessel formation, by promoting proliferation, migration and tube formation of endothelial cells. Endothelial progenitor cells are known as a subset of circulating bone marrow mononuclear cell...
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PMID: 21876756
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We describe how to isolate, label and inject HSPCs, as well as how to perform calvarium intravital microscopy and analyze the resulting images. A typical experiment can be performed and analyzed in ∼1 week....
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PMID: 21212779
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We investigated the biology of BM-derived EPC in a mouse model of LF. C57BL/6J mice were subcutaneously injected with carbon tetrachloride (CCl(4)) every 3 days for 90 days. Sacrificed 2 days after final injection, whole blood (WB) was collected for isolation of mononuclear cells (MNCs) and biochemi...
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PMID: 21572251
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We show the derivation of iPSCs from human nonmobilized peripheral blood (PB) and bone marrow (BM) mononuclear cells (MNCs) by retroviral transduction of OCT3/4, SOX2, KLF4, and c-MYC. The PB- and BM-derived iPSCs were quite similar to human embryonic stem cells with regard to morphology, expression...
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PMID: 20497033
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Cross-presentation is the key process in stimulation of cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) immune response in eliminating many infectious diseases and tumors. Previous studies have shown that surface modification of poly(D,L-lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) particles with polycations enhanc...
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PMID: 21058278
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We have evaluated the immunostimulatory role of the highly-conserved outer membrane lipoprotein P6 from non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) to determine whether the presence of the lipid motif plays a critical role on its immunogenicity. We undertook a systematic analysis of the role that the...
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PMID: 21611194
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We examine the use of chitosan scaffolds with double pore structure prepared by an innovative method that combines freeze gelation (that produces micropores) and particle leaching out technique (that produces interconnected spherical macropores) seeking to enhance the osteogenic differentiation of g...
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PMID: 20925083
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A fundamental component of bone tissue engineering is an appropriate scaffold as a carrier for osteogenic cells. The aim of the study was to evaluate the response of human bone marrow stromal cells (BMSC) to scaffolds made of three biodegradable polymers: poly(L-lactide-co-ε-caprola...
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PMID: 20939051
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I Collagen mRNA were detected and interfered 6 days later.
Serum containing Ground Beetle could reverse content of steroid-induced alkaline phosphatase of BMSCs, the expression of ostercalcin and Type I Collagen mRNA decreased.
The control mechanism of Ground Beetle on steroid-induced avascular necr...
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PMID: 21265200
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We demonstrated that the oral administration of β-1,3-glucan (Imunoglucan®) protects mice from a lethal dose of Listeria monocytogenes (LM) when administered prophylactically for 10 days at the doses of 150 and 300 mg/kg, with survival rates up to 40%. These doses also prevented the myelosuppressi...
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PMID: 20951668
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We investigated bone formation in aggregates of human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells induced to differentiate in bone. After osteoinduction we characterized the mineral matrix produced using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron micr...
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PMID: 20618081
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We evaluated the effect of using uncultured bone marrow mononuclear cells (bmMNCs) encapsulated within fibrin glue hydrogels and seeded into porous scaffolds to regenerate bone over 12 weeks in an 8-mm-diameter, critical-sized rat cranial defect. A full factorial experimental design was used to eval...
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PMID: 20715884
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Mono-dispersed SiO(2)-CaO bioactive glass nanospheres (BGNS) were prepared by a two step sol-gel method in the absence of surfactant. The size of BGNS ranged from 200 to 350 nm in diameter and exhibited a rough surface texture. In vitro biomineralization tests showed that BGNS could...
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PMID: 20725980
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Different approaches exist for the treatment of small articular cartilage defects. Several studies show comparable results for autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) and microfracture. Unfortunately, the fibrocartilage resulting from microfracture has neither the structure nor the...
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PMID: 20725984
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We have found no clinical studies available regarding the reaction of bone marrow to surgical revascularization.
This was an observational prospective study of 76 patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Bone marrow aspirates and blood samples were collected at baseline, at...
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PMID: 21095342
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The purpose of this study was to characterize the molecular phenotype that occurs during the profound morphological shift of cultured osteogenic cells upon treatment with fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF2). A time course of treatment with FGF2 was performed on an osteoblast cell line, primary bone ma...
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PMID: 20934405
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