Overexpression of the Mesenchymal Stem Cell Cxcr4 Gene in Irradiated Mice Increases the Homing Capacity of These Cells

The Role of SDF-1-CXCR4/CXCR7 Axis in the Therapeutic Effects of Hypoxia-Preconditioned Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Renal Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

(2012) Hongbao Liu et al.   PLoS One

Genetic Modification of Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Overexpress CXCR4 and CXCR7 Does Not Improve the Homing and Therapeutic Potentials of These Cells in Experimental Acute Kidney Injury

(2012) Yousof Gheisari et al.   STEM CELLS AND DEVELOPMENT

The elusive nature and function of mesenchymal stem cells

(2011) César Nombela-Arrieta et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Mesenchymal Stem Cells as Therapeutics

(2010) Biju Parekkadan et al.   Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Mesenchymal Stromal Cells: Facilitators of Successful Transplantation?

(2010) Karen English et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Intravenous hMSCs Improve Myocardial Infarction in Mice because Cells Embolized in Lung Are Activated to Secrete the Anti-inflammatory Protein TSG-6

(2009) Ryang Hwa Lee et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Mesenchymal Stem Cell Homing: The Devil Is in the Details

(2009) Jeffrey M. Karp et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Optimizing mesenchymal stem cell-based therapeutics

(2009) Joseph Wagner et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Transplantation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Overexpressing RANK-Fc or CXCR4 Prevents Bone Loss in Ovariectomized Mice

(2009) Sun Wook Cho et al.   MOLECULAR THERAPY

Factors that influence short-term homing of human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells in a xenogeneic animal model

(2008) C. Kyriakou et al.   HAEMATOLOGICA

Essential but differential role for CXCR4 and CXCR7 in the therapeutic homingof human renal progenitor cells

(2008) Benedetta Mazzinghi et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE

Over-expression of CXCR4 on mesenchymal stem cells augments myoangiogenesis in the infarcted myocardium

(2008) Dongsheng Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY

Targeted Migration of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Modified With CXCR4 Gene to Infarcted Myocardium Improves Cardiac Performance

(2008) Zhaokang Cheng et al.   MOLECULAR THERAPY

Optimized Lentiviral Transduction of Mouse Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells

(2008) David M. Ricks et al.   STEM CELLS AND DEVELOPMENT