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Spare Parts from Discarded Materials: Fetal Annexes in Regenerative Medicine

Giulia Gaggi1, Pascal Izzicupo2, Andrea Di Credico3

  • 1Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences, University "G. D'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy. giulia.gaggi@unich.it.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
|April 3, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
Wharton’s jelly stem cellsamniotic epithelial cellsamniotic fluid stem cellsamniotic mesenchymal cellschorionic mesenchymal stromal cellsdecellularized tissuesdifferentiationfetal membranesperinatal stem cellsregenerative medicine

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