Immunoregulatory mechanisms of mesenchymal stem and stromal cells in inflammatory diseases

Nature Reviews Nephrology - Tập 14 Số 8 - Trang 493-507 - 2018
Yufang Shi1, Yu Wang2, Qing Li2, Keli Liu2, Jianquan Hou1, Changshun Shao1, Ying Wang2
1The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, Institutes for Translational Medicine, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
2CAS Key Laboratory of Tissue Microenvironment and Tumor, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences/Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

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