Considerations in hiPSC-derived cartilage for articular cartilage repair

• Main Authors: Akihiro Yamashita (Author), Yoshihiro Tamamura (Author), Miho Morioka (Author), Peter Karagiannis (Author), Nobuyuki Shima (Author), Noriyuki Tsumaki (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background A lack of cell or tissue sources hampers regenerative medicine for articular cartilage damage. Main text We review and discuss the possible use of pluripotent stem cells as a new source for future clinical use. Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have several advantages...