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Promotion of Cell-Based Therapy: Special Focus on the Cooperation of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy and Gene Therapy for Clinical Trial Studies

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Regenerative medicine (RM) is a promising new field of medicine that has mobilized several new tools to repair or replace lost or damaged cells or tissues by stimulating natural regenerative mechanisms nearby cell and tissue-based therapy approaches. However, mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) based therapy has been shown to be safe and effective to a certain degree in multiple clinical trial studies (CTSs) of several diseases, in most MSC CTSs the efficacy of treatment has been reported low. Therefore, researchers have focused on efficacy enhancing of MSC to improve migratory and homing, survival, stemness, differentiation and other therapeutic applicable properties by using different approaches. Gene therapy is one of the experimental technique tools that uses genes to change cells for therapeutic and investigation purposes. In this study has been focused on genetically modified MSCs for use in RM with an emphasis on CTSs. We highlight the basic concept of genetic modifications and also discuss recent clinical studies aspects. Recently reviewed studies show that MSC therapy with assistant gene therapy can be used in cancer therapy, heart diseases, Fanconi anemia and several other diseases.

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Abbreviations

MSCs:

Mesenchymal stem cells

GEMSC:

Gene engineering of mesenchymal stem cells

ISCT:

International Society for Cellular Therapy

CTSs:

Clinical trial studies

RM:

Regenerative Medicine

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This study was supported by Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences (Project No. 96-12-002137).

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Correspondence to Mohammad Reza Nourani .

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Golchin, A., Rekabgardan, M., Taheri, R.A., Nourani, M.R. (2018). Promotion of Cell-Based Therapy: Special Focus on the Cooperation of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy and Gene Therapy for Clinical Trial Studies. In: Turksen, K. (eds) Cell Biology and Translational Medicine, Volume 4. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology(), vol 1119. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/5584_2018_256

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