Fig. 11.1 AFS for prenatal and perinatal intervention. AFS collected from the amniotic fluid are expanded and either directly administered, or incorporated into scaffolds for tissue engineering, and subsequently transplanted,…
, Joseph M. Scandura1, Shahin Rafii1 and Venkat R. Pulijaal2 (1) Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10064, USA (2) Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300…
Fig. 32.1 The average timeline for patent filing In the next step, the non-provisional patent or patent corporation treaty (PCT) application is filed. Within 3 months of a PCT application,…
Fig. 4.1 Comparison of acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) 3.1 Pathophysiology of GVHD Physiologic causes and effects of acute GVHD have been well characterized (Fig. 4.2) [18, 21, 24]….
MSC population Pancreatic differentiation protocol Analysis of markers expression Functional assays References WJ-MSCs 4 steps: Step 1 with neuronal conditioned medium (NCM) for 7 days Step 2 H-DMEM/F12 (25 mM…
Fig. 16.1 Photomicrograph of a typical articular cartilage stained by hematoxylin and eosin staining. Articular cartilage can be subdivided into different zones from the cartilage surface to subchondral bone. In…
Fig. 2.1 Examples of materials used clinically to treat wounds and experimental materials currently in research stages Rather than a passive gel dressing that will have a minimal role in…
Fig. 9.1 Amniotic fluid cell-based engineered heart valve after 28 days in vitro conditioning in a diastolic pulse duplicator system (from [38]) Fig. 9.2 Human amniotic fluid cells (AFCs) sorted…
Fig. 23.1 Upper panel: expression of markers in HAE cells and HAM cells. Lane 1: HAE cells, lane 2: pancreatic induced HAE cells, lane 3: HAM cells, lane 4: pancreatic…
Fig. 21.1 CD4+ T-cell differentiation, cytokine production and their implications in EAE and MS. Naïve CD4+ T cells exit the thymus and upon interactions with antigen-presenting cells they differentiate into…
