• Introduction• Components of blood vessel• Principle of vessel engineering• Seeding cells
sources‐Autologous ECs and SMCs‐Embryonic stem cells‐Adult stem cells‐Other cell …

The worldwide shortage of donor livers to transplant end stage liver disease patients has
prompted the search for alternative cell therapies for intractable liver diseases, such as …

Rationale: Multiple biological mechanisms contribute to the efficacy of cardiac cell therapy.
Most prominent among these are direct heart muscle and blood vessel regeneration from …

Accumulating evidence demonstrates that adult tissues contain a population of stem cells
that express early developmental markers such as stage-specific embryonic antigen and …

Over the past decade, the old idea that the bone marrow contains endothelial cell precursors
has become an area of renewed interest. While some still believe that there are no …

The shortage of donor resources has greatly limited the application of clinical
xenotransplantation. As such, genetically engineered pigs are expected to be an ideal organ …

One of the most intriguing questions in stem cell biology is whether pluripotent stem cells
exist in adult tissues. Several groups of investigators employing i) various isolation …

The promise of liver stem cells lie in their potential to provide a continual and readily
available source of liver cells that can be used for gene therapy, cellular transplant …

Recent advances in the field of regenerative medicines manifested the unique properties of
stem cells including the ability of self-renewal and differentiation to make them available for …

Patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) that are not eligible for transplantation have
limited therapeutic options. Stem cell therapy such as autologous bone marrow, mobilized …