Magnetic Targeted Delivery of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Promotes Articular Cartilage Repair

• Main Authors: Shinji Kotaka (Author), Shigeyuki Wakitani (Author), Akira Shimamoto (Author), Naosuke Kamei (Author), Mikiya Sawa (Author), Nobuo Adachi (Author), Mituo Ochi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Cartilage regeneration treatments using stem cells are associated with problems due to the cell source and the difficulty of delivering the cells to the cartilage defect. We consider labeled induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to be an ideal source of cells for tissue regeneration, and if iPS cells...