Applications of Amniotic Membrane and Fluid in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine

• Main Authors: Kerry Rennie (Author), Andrée Gruslin (Author), Markus Hengstschläger (Author), Duanqing Pei (Author), Jinglei Cai (Author), Toshio Nikaido (Author), Mahmud Bani-Yaghoub (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The amniotic membrane (AM) and amniotic fluid (AF) have a long history of use in surgical and prenatal diagnostic applications, respectively. In addition, the discovery of cell populations in AM and AF which are widely accessible, nontumorigenic and capable of differentiating into a variety of cell...