Progress in researches on stem cell therapy for erectile dysfunction / 中华男科学杂志
National Journal of Andrology
; (12): 937-940, 2009.
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ABSTRACT
Erectile dysfunction (ED) commonly results from endothelial dysfunction and erectile nerve damage. Recent researches have focused on the preclinical studies of stem cell-based therapies targeted at repairing penile endothelium and protecting erectile nerves. Early studies showed that stem cell- or gene-modified stem cell-based therapies may have enduring efficacy and eventually lead to a cure for ED. Such stem cells as embryonic, mesenchymal, muscle-derived and adipose-derived ones and endothelial progenitor cells all have differentiation potentials and obvious advantages in protecting and repairing both nervi erigentes and corpus cavernosum vascular endothelial cells. Stem cell-based therapies promise to be an effective approach to human erectile dysfunction.
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Main subject:
Therapeutics
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Stem Cell Transplantation
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Erectile Dysfunction
Limits:
Humans
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Male
Language:
Zh
Journal:
National Journal of Andrology
Year:
2009
Type:
Article