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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS AND BIOPHARMACEUTICS
Volume 177, Issue -, Pages 224-240Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2022.07.004
Keywords
Stem cell therapy; Nanomaterials; Spinal cord injury; Regenerative medicine; Neuron
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- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
- [5T32EB009035]
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Spinal cord injury (SCI) has a significant impact on patients' quality of life and is known as one of the most challenging diseases in the world. Different therapeutic strategies, including the use of stem cells and nanomaterials, show promising potential for SCI treatment.
As a part of the central nervous system, the spinal cord (SC) provides most of the communications between the brain and other parts of the body. Any damage to SC interrupts this communication, leading to serious problems, which may remain for the rest of their life. Due to its significant impact on patients' quality of life and its exorbitant medical costs, SC injury (SCI) is known as one of the most challengeable diseases in the world. Thus, it is critical to introduce highly translatable therapeutic platforms for SCI treatment. So far, different strategies have been introduced, among which utilizing various types of stem cells is one of the most interesting ones. The capability of stem cells to differentiate into several types of cell lines makes them promising candidates for the regeneration of injured tissues. One of the other interesting and novel strategies for SCI treatment is the appli-cation of nanomaterials, which could appear as a carrier for therapeutic agents or as a platform for culturing the cells. Combining these two approaches, stem cells and nanomaterials, could provide promising therapeutic strategies for SCI management. Accordingly, in this review we have summarized some of the recent advance-ments in which the applications of different types of stem cells and nanomaterials, alone and in combination forms, were evaluated for SCI treatment.
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