Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterized by exuberant apoptosis and inadequate regeneration of lung parenchyma cells. Intratracheal alveolar type II epithelial cell instillation alleviates lung inflammatio...
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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterized by exuberant apoptosis and inadequate regeneration of lung parenchyma cells. Intratracheal alveolar type II epithelial cell instillation alleviates lung inflammation and fibrosis. Resident lung epithelial stem cells, as well as exogenous mesenchymal stem cells, are capable of differentiating into lung epithelial cells and repair the injured lung. It is thus supposed that, either engraftment of exogenous stem cells, or methods facilitating endogenous lung stem cell proliferation, are promising treatments for IPF, a devastating disease. Arrays of cellular and animal studies have shown the potential of stem cells in alleviating experimental lung fibrosis. Moreover, clinical trials have been launched to investigate the potentials of cell-based therapy in IPF patients. We intend to discuss the newest advances on stem cell therapy in pulmonary fibrosis, particularly the advantages, promises, and possible hurdles to pass from the successes in laboratory experiments to the eventual clinical applications.
Primary tumors involving the bony skeleton of the chest wall are uncommon. After a retrospective review of the histopathology archive at our institution from Oct 08 to Mar 09 we found three malignant neoplasms affecti...
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Primary tumors involving the bony skeleton of the chest wall are uncommon. After a retrospective review of the histopathology archive at our institution from Oct 08 to Mar 09 we found three malignant neoplasms affecting the rib, clavicle and the costal cartilages, one mesenchymal chondrosarcoma, one case of clear cell chondrosarcoma and an aggressive osteoblastoma each having distinctive histological diagnosis. Our limited experience in the occurrence of primary chest wall tumors showed that there are occurrences of rare bony lesions. A strong clinical suspicion, clinico-radiological correlation and histopathological confirmation are required for proper evaluation.
This study was performed to demonstrate the transportation of an engineered MSC-produced intracellular anticancer gene product between mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) and cancer cells.? MSC-mediated anticancer strategy ha...
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This study was performed to demonstrate the transportation of an engineered MSC-produced intracellular anticancer gene product between mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) and cancer cells.? MSC-mediated anticancer strategy has held great promise owing to MSCs’ capacity of tumor-directed migration and the availability of specific anticancer genes.? All anticancer genes that have been used in previous MSC-mediated anticancer studies were limited in functioning via extracellular mechanisms, mainly because of the restriction by cell membrane to macromolecules including proteins.? In order to apply the majority of potent anticancer genes to the MSC-mediated anticancer system, a specifically designed expression vector which bears an intracellular anticancer gene, PTEN, is utilized to demonstrate the feasibility of the system in cancer therapies.? A transacting activator of transcription (TAT) was introduced into an expression vector followed by a segment for PTEN-RFP fusion protein.? A direct demonstration of PTEN-RFP transportation between MSC and cancer cells was obtained from direct co-cultures.? A marked cancer cell death was observed in indirect co-cultures with conditioned media from PTEN-transfected MSCs.? The demonstration of PTEN-engineered MSC-produced PTEN transportation indicates the feasibility of applying intracellular anticancer gene expression system in MSC-mediated strategies for cancer therapy.
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