Publications by authors named "Laura C Rose"

Unlabelled: Stromal vascular fraction (SVF) cells are used clinically for various therapeutic targets. The location and persistence of engrafted SVF cells are important parameters for determining treatment failure versus success. We used the GID SVF-1 platform and a clinical protocol to harvest and label SVF cells with the fluorinated ((19)F) agent CS-1000 as part of a first-in-human phase I trial (clinicaltrials.

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Embryonic stem cells are actively explored as a cell source in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine involving bone repair. Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) has been a valuable growth factor to support the culture of human stem cells as well as their osteogenic differentiation, but the influence of bFGF on mouse embryonic stem (mES) cells is not known. Towards this goal, D3 cells were treated with bFGF during maintenance conditions and during spontaneous and osteogenic differentiation.

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Non-viral delivery of genes involved in stimulation of bone formation has been pursued for clinical bone repair, but no effort has been made to assess protein expression levels after in vivo delivery. This is critical to better understand gene delivery efficiencies and to compare different modes of non-viral delivery. This study investigated expression levels of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) after delivering expression vectors (plasmid DNA) with polymeric carriers in a rat subcutaneous implant model.

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