Transdifferentiation of adipose-derived stem cells into keratinocyte-like cells: engineering a stratified epidermis.

Skin regeneration is an important area of research in the field of tissue-engineering, especially for cases involving loss of massive areas of skin, where current treatments are not capable of inducing permanent satisfying replacements. Human adipose-derived stem cells (ASC) have been shown to diffe...

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Main Authors: Claudia Chavez-Munoz, Khang T Nguyen, Wei Xu, Seok-Jong Hong, Thomas A Mustoe, Robert D Galiano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3846628?pdf=render