Genetically engineered mesenchymal stem cell therapy using self-assembling supramolecular hydrogels
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- Title
- Genetically engineered mesenchymal stem cell therapy using self-assembling supramolecular hydrogels
- Authors
- Hwang, BW; Kim, SJ; Park, KM; Kim, H; Yeom, J; Yang, JA; Jeong, H; Jung, H; Kim, K; Sung, YC; Hahn, SK
- Date Issued
- 2015-12-28
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
- Abstract
- Stem cell therapy has attracted a great deal of attention for treating intractable diseases such as cancer, stroke, liver cirrhosis, and ischemia. Especially, mesenchymal stemcells (MSCs) have been widely investigated for therapeutic applications due to the advantageous characteristics of long life-span, facile isolation, rapid proliferation, prolonged transgene expression, hypo-immunogenicity, and tumor tropism. MSCs can exert their therapeutic effects by releasing stress-induced therapeutic molecules after their rapid migration to damaged tissues. Recently, to improve the therapeutic efficacy, genetically engineered MSCs have been developed for therapeutic transgene expression by viral gene transduction and non-viral gene transfection. In general, the number of therapeutic cells for injection should be more than several millions for effective cell therapy. Adequate carriers for the controlled delivery of MSCs can reduce the required cell numbers and extend the duration of therapeutic effect, which provide great benefits for chronic disease patients. In this review, we describe genetic engineering of MSCs, recent progress of self-assembling supramolecular hydrogels, and their applications to cell therapy for intractable diseases and tissue regeneration. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/35608
- DOI
- 10.1016/J.JCONREL.2015.10.034
- ISSN
- 0168-3659
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE, vol. 220, page. 119 - 129, 2015-12-28
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