Complications Following Stem Cell Therapy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

• Published in: Current stem cell research & therapy Vol. 12; no. 6; p. 471
• Main Authors: Wei, Hongyun, Liu, Xiaowei, Ouyang, Chunhui, Zhang, Jie, Chen, Shuijiao, Lu, Fanggen, Chen, Linlin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United Arab Emirates 01.01.2017
• Subjects: Animals; Genetic Therapy - methods; Graft vs Host Disease - prevention & control; Graft vs Host Disease - therapy; Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation - methods; Humans; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases - therapy; Mesenchymal Stromal Cells - cytology; Mesenchymal Stromal Cells - immunology; Transplantation, Homologous - methods; IBD; complications; hematopoietic stem cells; mesenchymal stem cells; stem cell therapy

Pharmacotherapy and surgery constitute the mainstay of treatment for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). But post-treatment relapsing and recurrence persist as concerns in patients with IBD. Stem cell therapy (SCT) has emerged as a promising treatment strategy in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), incl...