Publications by authors named "Maryam Haj Ali Askari"

Ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) is an approach for overcoming cell insufficiency for umbilical cord blood transplantation. It was suggested that in common ex vivo cultures, the stemness specificity of HSCs is rapidly reducing due to DNA hypermethylation. Here, Nicotinamide (NAM), a DNA methyltransferase and histone deacetylase inhibitor, is used with a bioengineered Bone Marrow-like niche (BLN) for HSC ex vivo expansion.

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