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3D bioprinting and microscale organization of vascularized tissue constructs using collagen‐based bioink

scientific article published in 2021

A proposed design for the cryopreservation of intact and adherent human embryonic stem cell colonies.

scientific article published in March 2005

A subpopulation of mesenchymal stromal cells with high osteogenic potential.

scientific article published on 5 June 2009

Adipose Tissue and Extracellular Matrix Development by Injectable Decellularized Adipose Matrix Loaded with Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor.

scientific article published in April 2016

An overview and synopsis of techniques for directing stem cell differentiation in vitro.

scientific article published on 31 January 2004

Appliance-induced osteopenia of dentoalveolar bone in the rat: effect of reduced bone strains on serum bone markers and the multifunctional hormone leptin.

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Are stem cells inherently more prone to cryopreservation-induced apoptosis compared to ordinary somatic cells?

scientific article published on 17 December 2008

Autologous feeder cells from embryoid body outgrowth support the long-term growth of human embryonic stem cells more effectively than those from direct differentiation

scientific article published in August 2010

Bacterial GtfB Augments Candida albicans Accumulation in Cross-Kingdom Biofilms

scientific article published in June 2017

Bioactivity, physical and chemical properties of MTA mixed with propylene glycol

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Biomaterial-mediated delivery of microenvironmental cues for repair and regeneration of articular cartilage

scientific article published on 22 April 2011

Bone mineral density in mandibles of ovariectomized rabbits

scientific article published on 01 December 2001

CVD-grown monolayer graphene induces osteogenic but not odontoblastic differentiation of dental pulp stem cells

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

Can RNA interference be used to expand the plasticity of autologous adult stem cells?

scientific article published on 14 September 2004

Can the high nuclear to cytoplasmic ratio of human embryonic stem cells make them more vulnerable to physical stress encountered with bulk-passage protocols?

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Can the therapeutic advantages of allogenic umbilical cord blood-derived stem cells and autologous bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells be combined and synergized?

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Cartilage repair using hyaluronan hydrogel-encapsulated human embryonic stem cell-derived chondrogenic cells.

scientific article published on 17 June 2010

Caspase inhibitor Z-VAD-FMK enhances the freeze-thaw survival rate of human embryonic stem cells

scientific article published on 01 October 2007

Chondroitin sulfate in palatal wound healing

scientific article published on 01 November 2004

Co-transplantation of autologous adult stem cells together with differentiated derivatives of human embryonic stem cells. A novel strategy to enhance the efficacy of autologous cell-transplantation therapy?

scientific article published on 01 May 2005

Combined effects of TGFbeta1 and BMP2 in serum-free chondrogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells induced hyaline-like cartilage formation.

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Combining RNA interference with PTD-fusion transcription factors: a novel integrated strategy for achieving trans-differentiation of adult stem cells?

scientific article published in January 2005

Combining transfusion of stem/progenitor cells into the peripheral circulation with localized transplantation in situ at the site of tissue/organ damage: a possible strategy to optimize the efficacy of stem cell transplantation therapy

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Comments about possible use of human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes to direct autologous adult stem cells into the cardiomyogenic lineage.

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Comparison of osteogenesis of human embryonic stem cells within 2D and 3D culture systems.

scientific article published on January 2008

Comparison of the response of human embryonic stem cells and their differentiated progenies to oxidative stress

scientific article published in August 2009

Could the transit-amplifying stage of stem cell differentiation be the most suited for transplantation purposes?

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Culture media conditioned by heat-shocked osteoblasts enhances the osteogenesis of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells.

scientific article published on May 2007

Delivery of basic fibroblast growth factors from heparinized decellularized adipose tissue stimulates potent de novo adipogenesis

scientific article published on 15 November 2013

Derivation of Chondrogenic Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells for Cartilage Tissue Engineering.

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Differential effects of the extracellular microenvironment on human embryonic stem cell differentiation into keratinocytes and their subsequent replicative life span.

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Differential resistance of human embryonic stem cells and somatic cell types to hydrogen peroxide-induced genotoxicity may be dependent on innate basal intracellular ROS levels

scientific article published on 9 July 2015

Differentiated fibroblastic progenies of human embryonic stem cells for toxicology screening.

scientific article published on March 2008

Differentiation and enrichment of expandable chondrogenic cells from human embryonic stem cells in vitro.

scientific article published in May 2009

Differentiation of epidermal keratinocytes from human embryonic stem cells.

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Differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into clinically amenable keratinocytes in an autogenic environment.

scientific article published on 13 December 2012

Differentiation therapy of cancer. Potential advantages over conventional therapeutic approaches targeting death of cancer/tumor cells

scientific article published on 05 August 2005

Directed Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Neural Crest Stem Cells, Functional Peripheral Neurons, and Corneal Keratocytes.

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Directing endothelial differentiation of human embryonic stem cells via transduction with an adenoviral vector expressing the VEGF(165) gene.

scientific article published in June 2007

Directing stem cells into the keratinocyte lineage in vitro.

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Downregulation of transcription factors by ribonucleic acid interference. A novel approach to extend the multipotency of autologous adult stem cells?

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

Efficient derivation of dopaminergic neurons from SOX1⁻ floor plate cells under defined culture conditions.

scientific article published on 8 March 2016

Efficient derivation of lateral plate and paraxial mesoderm subtypes from human embryonic stem cells through GSKi-mediated differentiation.

scientific article published on 28 March 2013

Efficient differentiation of human embryonic stem cells to arterial and venous endothelial cells under feeder- and serum-free conditions.

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Efficient isolation of bone marrow adipocyte progenitors by silica microbeads incubation.

scientific article published on 02 August 2013

Emerging trends and prospects of electroconductive bioinks for cell-laden and functional 3D bioprinting

scientific article published in 2022

Engineering the periodontal ligament in hyaluronan-gelatin-type I collagen constructs: upregulation of apoptosis and alterations in gene expression by cyclic compressive strain

scientific article published on 8 October 2014

Establishment of clinically compliant human embryonic stem cells in an autologous feeder-free system.

scientific article published on 20 June 2011

Evaluating biotoxicity with fibroblasts derived from human embryonic stem cells.

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Evaluation of human embryonic stem cells and their differentiated fibroblastic progenies as cellular models for in vitro genotoxicity screening

scientific article published on 23 May 2014

Fabrication and evaluation of electrohydrodynamic jet 3D printed polycaprolactone/chitosan cell carriers using human embryonic stem cell-derived fibroblasts.

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Feeder cell density--a key parameter in human embryonic stem cell culture

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

Functional Odontoblastic-Like Cells Derived from Human iPSCs.

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Graphene for the development of the next-generation of biocomposites for dental and medical applications

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Graphene: A Versatile Carbon-Based Material for Bone Tissue Engineering.

scientific article published on June 2015

Histological evaluation of osteogenesis of 3D-printed poly-lactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA) scaffolds in a rabbit model.

scientific article published on 11 February 2009

Human embryonic stem cell (hES) colonies display a higher degree of spontaneous differentiation when passaged at lower densities

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Human embryonic stem cell differentiation into odontoblastic lineage: an in vitro study.

scientific article published on 28 August 2013

Human embryonic stem cells derived keratinocyte as an in vitro research model for the study of immune response.

scientific article published on 7 March 2013

Human embryonic stem cells may display higher resistance to genotoxic stress as compared to primary explanted somatic cells.

scientific article published in June 2008

Human fibroblast matrices bio-assembled under macromolecular crowding support stable propagation of human embryonic stem cells.

scientific article published on 3 July 2012

Immunoliposome-mediated delivery of neomycin phosphotransferase for the lineage-specific selection of differentiated/committed stem cell progenies: potential advantages over transfection with marker genes, fluorescence-activated and magnetic affinit

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

In Vitro Osteogenic Potential of Green Fluorescent Protein Labelled Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Osteoprogenitors.

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Incorporating protein transduction domains (PTD) within intracellular proteins associated with the 'stemness' phenotype. Novel use of such recombinant 'fusion' proteins to overcome current limitations of applying autologous adult stem cells in regen

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Incorporating protein transduction domains (PTD) within recombinant 'fusion' transcription factors. A novel strategy for directing stem cell differentiation?

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Inducing pluripotency for disease modeling, drug development and craniofacial applications

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

Induction of adipocyte hyperplasia in subcutaneous fat depot alleviated type 2 diabetes symptoms in obese mice

scientific article published on 11 February 2014

Innate Immune Response of Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Fibroblasts and Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Periodontopathogens.

scientific article published on 25 August 2016

Investigation of human embryonic stem cell-derived keratinocytes as an in vitro research model for mechanical stress dynamic response.

scientific article published in June 2015

Kinetics of cell death of frozen-thawed human embryonic stem cell colonies is reversibly slowed down by exposure to low temperature.

scientific article published in November 2006

Loss of viability during freeze-thaw of intact and adherent human embryonic stem cells with conventional slow-cooling protocols is predominantly due to apoptosis rather than cellular necrosis.

scientific article published on 23 December 2005

Making cell-permeable antibodies (Transbody) through fusion of protein transduction domains (PTD) with single chain variable fragment (scFv) antibodies: potential advantages over antibodies expressed within the intracellular environment (Intrabody)

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Making cell-permeable recombinant telomerase (trans-telomerase) through fusion of its catalytic subunit (hTERT) with protein transduction domains (PTD): a possible strategy to overcome replicative senescence during ex vivo culture of primary explant

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Mammalian oocyte polarity can be exploited for the automation of somatic cell nuclear transfer--in the development of a 'cloning biochip'.

scientific article published on 27 December 2005

Manufacture of degradable polymeric scaffolds for bone regeneration.

scientific article published on 03 June 2008

Mechanical dissociation of human embryonic stem cell colonies by manual scraping after collagenase treatment is much more detrimental to cellular viability than is trypsinization with gentle pipetting.

scientific article published on May 2007

Milieu-based versus gene-modulatory strategies for directing stem cell differentiation--A major issue of contention in transplantation medicine

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Mineralized bone loss in partially edentulous trabeculae of ovariectomized rabbit mandibles

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

New perspectives in chondrogenic differentiation of stem cells for cartilage repair.

scientific article published on 20 March 2006

Osteoarthritis and therapy.

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Osteogenic differentiation within intact human embryoid bodies result in a marked increase in osteocalcin secretion after 12 days of in vitro culture, and formation of morphologically distinct nodule-like structures.

scientific article published on August 2005

Pluripotent stem cells: An in vitro model for nanotoxicity assessments.

scientific article published on 30 May 2016

Possible Advantages of Stem Cell Transfusion into the Peripheral Circulation, As Opposed to Localized Transplantation In Situ

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

Potential applications of intracellular antibodies (intrabodies) in stem cell therapeutics.

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Potential applications of keratinocytes derived from human embryonic stem cells.

scientific article published on 10 December 2015

Potential of human embryonic stem cells in cartilage tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

scientific article published on September 2011

Potential utility of cell-permeable transcription factors to direct stem cell differentiation.

scientific article published on October 2004

Prospect of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neural Crest Stem Cells in Clinical Application.

scientific article published on 20 December 2016

Reduced mitotic activity at the periphery of human embryonic stem cell colonies cultured in vitro with mitotically-inactivated murine embryonic fibroblast feeder cells.

scientific article published in March 2005

Refund fertility-treatment costs for donated embryos.

scientific article published in September 2006

Reverse engineering the mechanical and molecular pathways in stem cell morphogenesis.

scientific article published on 14 January 2013

Scaffold implants for the controlled release of heparan sulfate (HS) and other glycosaminoglycan (GAG) species: this could facilitate the homing of adult stem cells for tissue/organ regeneration.

scientific article published in January 2005

Short periods of cyclic mechanical strain enhance triple-supplement directed osteogenesis and bone nodule formation by human embryonic stem cells in vitro.

scientific article published on 04 June 2013

Soluble molecules are key in maintaining the immunomodulatory activity of murine mesenchymal stromal cells.

scientific article published on 16 January 2012

Stepwise differentiation of human embryonic stem cells promotes tendon regeneration by secreting fetal tendon matrix and differentiation factors.

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Strategies for directing the differentiation of stem cells into the osteogenic lineage in vitro.

scientific article published on 26 July 2004

Telomere length is regulated by FGF-2 in human embryonic stem cells and affects the life span of its differentiated progenies.

scientific article published on 18 October 2016

The cryopreservation of human embryonic stem cells.

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The differentiation status of stem cells and their derivatives: a key consideration in transplantation medicine

scientific article published on 01 November 2004

The effect of cyclic mechanical strain on the expression of adhesion-related genes by periodontal ligament cells in two-dimensional culture

scientific article published on 20 October 2011

The effect of rhBMP-2 on canine osteoblasts seeded onto 3D bioactive polycaprolactone scaffolds.

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The immunogenicity and immunomodulatory function of osteogenic cells differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Transplanted human embryonic stem cells as biological 'catalysts' for tissue repair and regeneration

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Utilizing stem cells for myocardial repair--to differentiate or not to differentiate prior to transplantation?

scientific article published on 01 July 2005