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2020 Published Issues

5 4 3 2 1

Editors-in-Chief

Carlo Ventura, MD, PhD, Director, Full Professor, (E-mail: carlo.ventura@unibo.it) Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), School of Medicine University of Bologna, Bologna 40129, Italy

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The 2019 Edition of Journal Citation Reports cites the 2018 impact factor for WJSC as 3.534 (5-year impact factor: N/A), ranking WJSC as 14 among 26 journals in Cell and Tissue Engineering (quartile in category Q3), and 94 among 193 journals in Cell Biology (quartile in category Q2).

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1948-0210 (online)

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Contents Volume 12 Issue 5 May 26, 2020

Review

Molecular modulation of autophagy: New venture to target resistant cancer stem cells

Harpreet K Mandhair, Miroslav Arambasic, Urban Novak, Ramin Radpour

World J Stem Cells 12(5):303-322. Published online May 26, 2020. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v12.i5.303

Advances in treatment of neurodegenerative diseases: Perspectives for combination of stem cells with neurotrophic factors

Jie Wang, Wei-Wei Hu, Zhi Jiang, Mei-Jiang Feng

World J Stem Cells 12(5):323-338. Published online May 26, 2020. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v12.i5.323

Current and future uses of skeletal stem cells for bone regeneration

Guo-Ping Xu, Xiang-Feng Zhang, Lu Sun, Er-Man Chen

World J Stem Cells 12(5):339-350. Published online May 26, 2020. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v12.i5.339

Minireviews

DNA methylation and demethylation link the properties of mesenchymal stem cells: Regeneration and immunomodulation

Tian-Yi Xin, Ting-Ting Yu, Rui-Li Yang

World J Stem Cells 12(5):351-358. Published online May 26, 2020. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v12.i5.351

Basic Study

How old is too old? In vivo engraftment of human peripheral blood stem cells cryopreserved for up to 18 years - implications for clinical transplantation and stability programs

John Underwood, Mahvish Rahim, Carijo West, Rebecca Britton, Elaine Skipworth, Vicki Graves, Steven Sexton, Hillary Harris, Dave Schwering, Anthony Sinn, Karen E Pollok, Kent A Robertson, W Scott Goebel, Kerry M Hege

World J Stem Cells 12(5):359-367. Published online May 26, 2020. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v12.i5.359

Safety of menstrual blood-derived stromal cell transplantation in treatment of intrauterine adhesion

Qi-Yuan Chang, Si-Wen Zhang, Ping-Ping Li, Zheng-Wei Yuan, Ji-Chun Tan

World J Stem Cells 12(5):368-380. Published online May 26, 2020. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v12.i5.368

Systematic Reviews

Stem cell homing, tracking and therapeutic efficiency evaluation for stroke treatment using nanoparticles: A systematic review

Mariana Penteado Nucci, Igor Salerno Filgueiras, João Matias Ferreira, Fernando Anselmo de Oliveira, Leopoldo Penteado Nucci, Javier Bustamante Mamani, Gabriel Nery Albuquerque Rego, Lionel Fernel Gamarra

World J Stem Cells 12(5):381-405. Published online May 26, 2020. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v12.i5.381