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Adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells improved symptoms of tissue fibrosis in cirrhosis caused by the administration of CCL4.

Schematic representation of common cancer stem cell markers.

Long non-coding RNA in the tri-lineage differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells.

Amyloid precursor protein processing.

Applications of human induced pluripotent stem cells.

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World Journal of Stem Cells (WJSC, World J Stem Cells) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJSC accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJSC are high-quality, basic and clinical, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJSC is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of stem cells, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in WJSC include Editorial, Opinion Review, Frontier, Review, Minireview, Basic Study, Clinical Research, Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Evidence-based Medicine, Field of Vision, Clinical Guidelines, Letter to the Editor, and Case Report. Submit here >>

2019 Published Issues

11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Editors-in-Chief

Tong Cao, DDS, PhD, Doctor, Professor, (E-mail:dencaot@nus.edu.sg) Department of Oral Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119085, Singapore
Shengwen Calvin Li, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Research Scientist, Senior Research Fellow, (E-mail: choc.uci@gmail.com) Center for Neuroscience and Stem Cell Research, CHOC Children’s Research Institute/UCI, Children's Hospital of Orange County Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Orange County Research Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Children's Hospital of Orange County Research Institute, Orange, CA 92868-3874, United States
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 WJSC is now abstracted and indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), China Science and Technology Journal Database (CSTJ), and Superstar Journals Database.

Journal Metrics

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 11 Issue 11 November 26, 2019

Review

Unexpected encounter of the parasitic kind

Holly Matthews, Florian Noulin

World J Stem Cells 11(11):904-919. Published online Nov 26, 2019. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v11.i11.904

Colon cancer stemness as a reversible epigenetic state: Implications for anticancer therapies

Audrey Vincent, Aïcha Ouelkdite-Oumouchal, Mouloud Souidi, Julie Leclerc, Bernadette Neve, Isabelle Van Seuningen

World J Stem Cells 11(11):920-936. Published online Nov 26, 2019. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v11.i11.920

CRISPR/Cas system: An emerging technology in stem cell research

Maria Teresa Valenti, Michela Serena, Luca Dalle Carbonare, Donato Zipeto

World J Stem Cells 11(11):937-956. Published online Nov 26, 2019. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v11.i11.937

Cytokine interplay among the diseased retina, inflammatory cells and mesenchymal stem cells - a clue to stem cell-based therapy

Vladimir Holan, Barbora Hermankova, Magdalena Krulova, Alena Zajicova

World J Stem Cells 11(11):957-967. Published online Nov 26, 2019. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v11.i11.957

Developments in cell culture systems for human pluripotent stem cells

Weiwei Liu, Chunhao Deng, Carlos Godoy-Parejo, Yumeng Zhang, Guokai Chen

World J Stem Cells 11(11):968-981. Published online Nov 26, 2019. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v11.i11.968

Minireviews

Monitoring maturation of neural stem cell grafts within a host microenvironment

Olga Kopach

World J Stem Cells 11(11):982-989. Published online Nov 26, 2019. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v11.i11.982

Basic Study

Ameliorating liver fibrosis in an animal model using the secretome released from miR-122-transfected adipose-derived stem cells

Kee-Hwan Kim, Jae Im Lee, Ok-Hee Kim, Ha-Eun Hong, Bong Jun Kwak, Ho Joong Choi, Joseph Ahn, Tae Yun Lee, Sang Chul Lee, Say-June Kim

World J Stem Cells 11(11):990-1004. Published online Nov 26, 2019. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v11.i11.990

Systematic Review

In vitro differentiation capacity of human breastmilk stem cells: A systematic review

Camila Maria Ribeiro Pacheco, Priscila Elias Ferreira, Claudia Sayuri Saçaki, Luana Alves Tannous, Idiberto José Zotarelli-Filho, Luiz Cesar Guarita-Souza, Katherine Athayde Teixeira de Carvalho

World J Stem Cells 11(11):1005-1019. Published online Nov 26, 2019. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v11.i11.1005