[HTML][HTML] Emerging strategies to bypass transplant rejection via biomaterial-assisted immunoengineering: Insights from islets and beyond

S Abbaszadeh, V Nosrati-Siahmazgi, K Musaie… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Novel transplantation techniques are currently under development to preserve the function
of impaired tissues or organs. While current technologies can enhance the survival of …

Therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stem cells for diabetes

A Moreira, S Kahlenberg… - Journal of molecular …, 2017 - jme.bioscientifica.com
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are self-renewing multipotent cells that have the capacity to
secrete multiple biologic factors that can restore and repair injured tissues. Preclinical and …

Engineering the vasculature for islet transplantation

DT Bowers, W Song, LH Wang, M Ma - Acta biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
The microvasculature in the pancreatic islet is highly specialized for glucose sensing and
insulin secretion. Although pancreatic islet transplantation is a potentially life-changing …

Extracellular vesicles derived from human ES-MSCs protect retinal ganglion cells and preserve retinal function in a rodent model of optic nerve injury

SZ Seyedrazizadeh, S Poosti, A Nazari… - Stem cell research & …, 2020 - Springer
Background Retinal and/or optic nerve injury is one of the leading causes of blindness due
to retinal ganglion cell (RGC) degeneration. There have been extensive efforts to suppress …

Comprehensive transcriptomic and proteomic characterization of human mesenchymal stem cells reveals source specific cellular markers

AM Billing, H Ben Hamidane, SS Dib, RJ Cotton… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) are multipotent cells with great potential in therapy, reflected
by more than 500 MSC-based clinical trials registered with the NIH. MSC are derived from …

Extracellular vesicles derived from human embryonic stem cell‐MSCs ameliorate cirrhosis in thioacetamide‐induced chronic liver injury

S Mardpour, SN Hassani, S Mardpour… - Journal of cellular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Various somatic tissue‐derived mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) have been considered
as an attractive therapeutic tool for treatment of liver diseases in which the secretion of …

[HTML][HTML] Bioengineering the vascularized endocrine pancreas: a fine-tuned interplay between vascularization, extracellular-matrix-based scaffold architecture, and …

C Pignatelli, F Campo, A Neroni… - Transplant …, 2022 - frontierspartnerships.org
Intrahepatic islet transplantation is a promising β-cell replacement strategy for the treatment
of type 1 diabetes. Instant blood-mediated inflammatory reactions, acute inflammatory storm …

Production of mesenchymal stem cells through stem cell reprogramming

A Abdal Dayem, SB Lee, K Kim, KM Lim… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) possess a broad spectrum of therapeutic applications and
have been used in clinical trials. MSCs are mainly retrieved from adult or fetal tissues …

Improvement of islet engrafts by enhanced angiogenesis and microparticle-mediated oxygenation

L Montazeri, S Hojjati-Emami, S Bonakdar… - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
A major hindrance in islet transplantation as a feasible therapeutic approach for patients
with type 1 diabetes is the insufficient oxygenation of the grafts, which results in cell death in …

Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells in type 2 diabetes mellitus: the emerging therapeutic approach

A Gomes, P Coelho, R Soares, R Costa - Cell and Tissue Research, 2021 - Springer
The umbilical cord has been proved to be an easy-access, reliable, and useful source of
mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) for clinical applications due to its primitive …