From multipotent cells to fully differentiated connective tissue cells for regenerative medicine: emerging applications of mesenchymal stem cells

Ali Mobasheri1, Stephen M. Richardson2, Judith A. Hoyland2, Constanze Buhrmann3 and Mehdi Shakibaei3 1Musculoskeletal Research Group, Division of Veterinary Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, The University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Leicestershire, 2Developmental Biomedicine Research Group, School of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, The University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, 3Musculoskeletal Research Group, Institute of Anatomy, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Munich 1,2United Kingdom 3Germany

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