Adverse reactions may occur during the Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells via Apheresis (HPC-A) �collection, although they are rare. They can be associated with physical, psychological, or environmental factors. The most common complications are hypocalcemia related to citrate t ...
Hematopoietic progenitor cells can be mobilized from the bone marrow microenvironment into the peripheral blood following treatment of patients with myeloid cytokines (GCSF, GMCSF, IL3), a CXCR4 antagonist (Plerixafor) and/or following a hematopoietic recovery from cytotox ...
Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell (HPC) Apheresis generally results in a mononuclear cell product that is highly enriched for hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells when performed on autologous patients in whom autologous stem cell transplant is planned who have been mobilized with ...
Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is the standard treatment for a wide variety of malignancies. At present, most hematopoietic progenitor/stem cell (HPC) collections are collected from the peripheral blood via leukapheresis following chemotherapy and/ ...
Hematopoietic stem and progenitor mobilization has revolutionized the field of hematopoietic transplantation. Currently, hematopoietic grafts acquired from the peripheral blood of patients or donors treated with granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) are the ...
Cytokine mobilized peripheral blood stem cells are the preferred source of stem cells in autologous stem cell transplantation and have virtually replaced bone marrow as the stem cell source. In recent years, a dramatic increase has been reported in the use of peripheral blood stem cells for all ...
Allogeneic donor blood cells and autologous peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL), obtained following �clinical mobilization procedures, are routinely used as a major source of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC) for transplantation protocols. It is, therefore, esse ...
The course of various pathological conditions relies on the mobilization of stem cells and partially differentiated progenitor cells. Bone marrow transplantation studies have demonstrated that medullary hematopoietic and endothelial progenitors can undergo mobiliz ...
Hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell mobilization can be achieved by a variety of bone marrow niche modifications, although efficient mobilization requires simultaneous expansion of the stem/progenitor cell pool and niche modification. Many of the mechanisms involved in G-C ...
While many murine models have been developed to study adult disease, animal research focused on neonatal and pediatric medicine has been limited by the small size of the mouse pups. Several transplantation, injection, and implantation systems have been used to study the function and role of va ...
Airway epithelial cell biology has been greatly advanced by studies of genetically defined and modified mice; however it is often difficult to isolate, manipulate, and assay epithelial cell-specific responses in vivo. In vitro proliferation and differentiation of mouse airway epi ...
Human airway epithelial (hAE) cell cultures are instrumental for studying basic and applied aspects of respiratory tract biology, disease, and therapy. When primary epithelial cells from the human nasal passages or tracheo-bronchial airways are grown on porous supports at an air-liq ...
Establishment of primary and immortalized cultures of many cell types has facilitated efforts to understand the signals involved in proliferation and differentiation and yielded tools to rapidly assay new molecules targeting specific receptor pathways. Taste cells are speci ...
The central cell type involved in the initial perception of odors and transduction of the sensory signal are the olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) located in the olfactory neuroepithelium of the nasal cavities. The olfactory epithelium is a unique system similar to the neuroepithelium of ...
Primary human oral epithelial cells are readily available and have been recently employed for tissue engineering. These cells are currently being widely utilized in multiple research efforts, ranging from the study of oral biology, mucosal immunity, and carcinogenesis to stem cell bi ...
The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is implicated in many eye diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, and therefore isolating and culturing these cells from recently deceased adult human donors is the ideal source for disease studies. Adult RPE could also be used as a cell s ...
The surface of the eye is exposed to the outside world and is, thus, subject to surface abrasion, infections, and drying, cicatrizing diseases. Availability of in vitro methods for culture of the human corneal and conjunctival epithelia, which cover the ocular surface, is therefore important in ...
Chemical homeostasis in the extracellular fluid of the central nervous system (CNS) is maintained by two brain barrier systems, i.e., the blood–brain barrier (BBB) that separates the blood circulation from brain interstitial fluid and the blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier (BCB) that ...
Approximately 18% of human cancers have a viral etiology and the majority of these involve transformation of epithelial cells. Viral proteins transform epithelia by inducing alterations in the normal cell growth and differentiation pathways through the targeting of host proteins. ...
Even now, most human cell lines used in research are derived from tumor cells. They are still widely used because they grow well in vitro and so far have helped answering several basic biological questions. However, as modern biology moves into more sophisticated areas, scientists now need human c ...