title: [The application progress of human urine derived stem cells in bone tissue engineering].
abstract: The research of bone tissue engineering bases on three basic directions of seed cells, scaffold materials and growth information. Stem cells have been widely studied as seed cells. Human urine-derived stem cell (hUSC) is extracted from urine and described to be adhesion growth, cloning, expression of the majority of mesenchymal stem cell markers and peripheral cell markers, multi-potential and no tumor but stable karyotype with passaging many times. Some researches proposed that hUSC might be a new source of seed cells in tissue engineering because of their invasive and convenient obtention, stable culture and multiple differentiation potential.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Harbin Children's Hospital, Harbin 150010, China.
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Dapeng
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Zhaozhu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D001842:Bone and Bones; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D006801:Humans; D059630:Mesenchymal Stem Cells; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D023822:Tissue Engineering; D014556:Urine / Q000166:cytology*