MYOGENIC POTENTIAL OF HUMAN ENDOMETRIAL ADULT STEM CELLS

The use of adult stem cells for cell-based tissue engineering and regeneration strategies represents a hopeful idea for skeletal muscle repair. Autologous stem cells derived from muscle and bone marrow stem cells offers hope for the treatment of intractable muscle degenerative disorders; however, because the stem cell population is very small and decrease of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in bone marrow with increased age, the problem of inadequate tissue supply for therapeutic scale arises. We hypothesized that endometrial stromal cells are more suitable candidate for muscle regeneration.