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SUBMITTER: Ahn SY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4414632 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ahn So Yoon SY Chang Yun Sil YS Park Won Soon WS
Journal of Korean medical science 20150415 5
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a chronic lung disease affecting very premature infants, is a major cause of mortality and long-term morbidities despite of current progress in neonatal intensive care medicine. Though there has not been any effective treatment or preventive strategy for BPD, recent stem cell research seems to support the assumption that stem cell therapy could be a promising and novel therapeutic modality for attenuating BPD severity. This review summarizes the recent advances ...[more]