Cord Blood To Skin

Nanchang, China -

The use of stem cells for burn injury is attractive not only for repairing injured tissue directly and through trophic factor secretion, but also by their potential to inhibit inflammatory responses.

In a recent paper (Dai et al. Skin epithelial cells in mice from umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cells. Burns. 2007 Apr 26) cord blood mesenchymal stem cells were labelled with GFP by transfection and introduced into a nude mouse.

Accelerated healing was demonstrated, as well as human skin epithelial cells.

This data suggests the potential of expanded mesenchymal stem cells to accelerate wound healing. It will be interesting to see if Osiris enters the burn healing domain after their mesenchymal stem cell product Provacel is approved.