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Stem Cells and Burn

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Tremendous clinical advancement has been made in the last four decades in terms of treating burn victims. The authors discuss human umbilical cord-derived stem cells, bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells, and adipose-derived stem cells.

Application of stem cells to address burn wound healing comorbidities has a promising future.

Many unaddressed questions including the optimum source of the stem cells, method of isolation, characterization, and especially follow-up on the molecular mechanism following the application of stem cells on the burn wounds need to be further studied in detail.

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    Anesh Prasai, Amina El Ayadi, David N. Herndon & Celeste C. Finnerty

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Prasai, A., El Ayadi, A., Herndon, D.N., Finnerty, C.C. (2019). Stem Cells and Burn. In: Duscher, D., Shiffman, M.A. (eds) Regenerative Medicine and Plastic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19962-3_8

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