Nanotechnology and Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine


Authored by Ana I Flores

Nanotechnology has emerged as an area with great potential for the treatment of several human diseases. The use of nanobiomaterials, drug delivery systems, gene therapies, diagnostic and surgical robotic tools, nanobiomedical devices, amongst others, is called nanomedicine or bio-nanotechnology in healthcare. It has been shown that stem cells have an important reparative potential for restoring the function of injured tissues and organs. Nanotechnology and stem cell research are two interesting fields that are gradually becoming a newly merged field of modern research. This novel field, stem cell nanotechnology, has generated high interest in human healthcare because it could result in significant contributions in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells or mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are a special type of stem cell with some interesting properties, such as easy isolation, high rate of proliferation in culture and their differentiation capacity into several cell lines. Moreover, it has been shown that MSCs contribute to tissue repair due to their tropism for injury sites. It has been proposed that MSCs can be useful as cellular vehicles for medications. Human MSCs have been isolated from different tissues such as bone marrow, adipose tissue, cord blood, Wharton’s jelly, dental pulp and placenta. The new field of MSCs/nanobiomaterials could give challenging advances in tissue regeneration in the next decade.

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