title: The challenges of stem cell therapy.
abstract: The actual repairing power of stem cells has yet to be fully realized because of insufficient knowledge about the basic mechanisms regulating their fate and unsuitable protocols to implant them in injured tissues. Novel strategies must be formulated to fully exploit stem cell potential in the clinical setting.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio di Cardiologia Molecolare e Cellulare, Dipartimento Medicina Interna, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy. dinardo@uniroma2.it
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Di Nardo
authors.forename: Dinender
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Singla
authors.forename: Ren-Ke
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation