Progressive Scoliosis and Syringomyelia - Questions of Surgical Approach.

Background: The rate of scoliosis in syringomyelia patients ranges from 25 to 74.4%. In turn, syringomyelia occurs in 1.

Human induced pluripotent stem cells derived from fetal neural stem cells successfully undergo directed differentiation into cartilage.

Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells can be derived from a wide range of somatic cells via overexpression of a set of specific genes. With respect to their properties, iPS cells closely resemble embryonic stem cells. Because of their main property, pluripotency, iPS cells have excellent prospects for use in substitutive cell therapy; however, the methods of directed differentiation of iPS cells have not been yet sufficiently elaborated.