Cell-based Therapy for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Rebuilding the Lung.

ABSTRACT: As the prevalence and impact of lung diseases continue to increase worldwide, new therapeutic strategies are desperately needed. Advances in lung-regenerative medicine, a broad field encompassing stem cells, cell-based therapies, and a range of bioengineering approaches, offer new insights into and new techniques for studying lung physiology and pathophysiology. This provides a platform for the development of novel therapeutic approaches. Applicability to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease of recent advances and applications in cell-based therapies, predominantly those with mesenchymal stromal cell-based approaches, and bioengineering approaches for lung diseases are reviewed.

SUBMITTER: Weiss DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6944395 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature