TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Regenerative Medicine: Multipotential Cell Therapy for Tissue Repair A1 - Tolar, Jakub A1 - Osborn, Mark J A1 - Daughters, Randy A1 - Banga, Anannya A1 - Wagner, John A2 - Kaushansky, Kenneth A2 - Lichtman, Marshall A. A2 - Prchal, Josef T. A2 - Levi, Marcel M. A2 - Press, Oliver W. A2 - Burns, Linda J. A2 - Caligiuri, Michael PY - 2015 T2 - Williams Hematology, 9e AB - SUMMARYRegenerative medicine is a complex and rapidly advancing field that holds tremendous promise in treating, and even curing, many diseases. The understanding and control of tissue repair is one of the most urgent challenges in medicine today. Regenerative medicine seeks to either recruit the patient’s reparative cells or to replace the malfunctioning tissue altogether to restore the deficient organ to adequate function. The common link among all types of regenerative therapies is the stem cell, which gives all tissues the capacity to regenerate. The mechanisms underlying the ability of a progenitor cell to differentiate have been challenging to elucidate, with recent experimentation focused on editing the genome itself. It has been even more difficult to determine how a differentiated cell can be instructed to revert to an immature state and undergo a re-specification to another differentiated cellular phenotype or an asymmetrical division to generate more immature cells. Our ability to modify genomes, harness stem cells, and transplant autologous or allogeneic tissues has transformed biomedical inquiry and offers hope to patients with diseases spanning all organ systems, including cardiac, lung, central nervous system, and liver and pancreatic diseases. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/18 UR - hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1121091169 ER -