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Breast cancer cells use message-carrying vesicles to send oncogenic stimuli to normal cells
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Breast cancer cells use message-carrying vesicles to send oncogenic stimuli to normal cells

by The Wistar Institute According to a study by The Wistar Institute, breast cancer cells starved for oxygen send out messages that induce oncogenic changes in surrounding normal epithelial cells. These messages are packaged into particles called extracellular vesicles (EVs) and reprogram mitochondrial shape and position within the recipient normal cells to ultimately promote deregulated...

Ex Vivo Mitochondrial Transfer as a Way to Improve Stem Cell Therapy Outcomes
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Ex Vivo Mitochondrial Transfer as a Way to Improve Stem Cell Therapy Outcomes

A sizable portion of the variable efficacy of first generation stem cell therapies as presently practiced may be due to a poor quality of cells following expansion in culture. Regardless of quality, near all such cells die shortly after transplantation. Few clinics and few approaches to cell therapy lead to lasting survival and engraftment of...

New clues to lung-scarring disease may aid treatment
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New clues to lung-scarring disease may aid treatment

by Vanderbilt University Medical Center Scientists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix, Arizona, have discovered previously unreported genetic and cellular changes that occur in the lungs of people with pulmonary fibrosis (PF). Their findings, reported Wednesday, July 8, in the journal Science Advances, should aid the...

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Exosomes from adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells prevent cardiomyocyte apoptosis induced by oxidative stress

Zhi Liu,  Yueqiao Xu,  Yungao Wan,  Jing Gao,  Yanyan Chu &  Jing Li  Abstract Exosomes from bone marrow stem cells or cardiac progenitor cells can reduce apoptosis in myocardial cells after ischemia and reperfusion injury. However, there is little known about the effects of exosomes from adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs), which are more abundant and have...

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Are immortalized stem cells poor surrogates?

JUPITER, Fla.—New research conducted in the lab of Dr. Donald Phinney on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has identified factors critical to the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), which are commonly used in stem cell therapies and clinical research. The study, published in the journal Cell Death and Differentiation, suggests a new approach...

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Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Spontaneously Make Cartilage After Blockage of VEGF Signaling

Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can be induced to make cartilage by incubating the cells with particular growth factors.  Unfortunately, batches of MSCs show respectable variability from patient-to-patient.  Therefore the growth factor-dependent method suffers from poor efficacy, limited reproducibility from batch-to-batch, and the cell types that are induced are not always terribly stable.  Finding a better...