Mesenchymal stem cells engineered for cancer therapy

K Shah - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Recent pre-clinical and clinical studies have shown that stem cell-based therapies hold
tremendous promise for the treatment of human disease. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) …

[HTML][HTML] Stem cells and cell therapies in lung biology and lung diseases

DJ Weiss, I Bertoncello, Z Borok, C Kim… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - atsjournals.org
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The University of Vermont College of Medicine and the Vermont
Lung Center, with support of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the …

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor–CXCR4 is the dominant chemotactic axis in human mesenchymal stem cell recruitment to tumors

S Lourenco, VH Teixeira, T Kalber, RJ Jose… - The Journal of …, 2015 - journals.aai.org
Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are inherently tumor homing and can be isolated,
expanded, and transduced, making them viable candidates for cell therapy. This tumor …

MIF-induced stromal PKCβ/IL8 is essential in human acute myeloid leukemia

AM Abdul-Aziz, MS Shafat, TK Mehta, F Di Palma… - Cancer research, 2017 - AACR
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells exhibit a high level of spontaneous apoptosis when
cultured in vitro but have a prolonged survival time in vivo, indicating that tissue …

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor and CD74 regulate macrophage chemotactic responses via MAPK and Rho GTPase

H Fan, P Hall, LL Santos, JL Gregory… - The Journal of …, 2011 - journals.aai.org
Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) promotes leukocyte recruitment to sites of
inflammation. However, whether this stems from a direct effect on leukocyte migration is …

Regulatory factors of mesenchymal stem cell migration into injured tissues and their signal transduction mechanisms

L Li, J Jiang - Frontiers of medicine, 2011 - Springer
Adult stem cells hold great promise for wound healing and tissue regeneration.
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), for example, have been shown to play a role in tissue …

Low-level shear stress induces human mesenchymal stem cell migration through the SDF-1/CXCR4 axis via MAPK signaling pathways

L Yuan, N Sakamoto, G Song, M Sato - Stem cells and development, 2013 - liebertpub.com
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are able to home and migrate into damaged tissues and
are thus, considered an optimal therapeutic strategy for clinical use. We previously …

In vivo tracking of the tropism of mesenchymal stem cells to malignant gliomas using reporter gene‐based MR imaging

M Cao, J Mao, X Duan, L Lu, F Zhang… - … journal of cancer, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have emerged as a promising cellular vehicle for gene
therapy of malignant gliomas due to their property of tumor tropism. However, MSCs may …

Encapsulated stem cells for cancer therapy

K Shah - Biomatter, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Stem cells have inherent tumor‑trophic migratory properties and can serve as vehicles for
delivering effective, targeted therapy to isolated tumors and metastatic disease, making them …

[HTML][HTML] TA-MSCs, TA-MSCs-EVs, MIF: their crosstalk in immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment

Z Zhang, X Zhou, J Guo, F Zhang, Y Qian… - Journal of Translational …, 2022 - Springer
As an important component of the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME), it
has been established that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) promote the progression of …