Intra-Session Reliability and Predictive Value of Maximum Voluntary Isometric Contraction for Estimating One-Repetition Maximum in Older Women: A Randomised Split-Sample Study by José Aldo Hernández-Murúa, Ena Monserrat Romero-Pérez, Jorge Luis Guajardo-Cruztitla, Blas Sinahí Madrigal Olivares, Ángel Gallego-Selles, Diego González-Martín, Francisca Reyes-Merino, Nidia Sánchez-García, José Antonio de Paz

“…<b>Results:</b> MVIC demonstrated excellent intra-session reliability (ICC = 0.96, SEM = 4.3%, MDC = 11.9%), and a strong correlation between MVIC and 1RM was observed (R² = 0.618). …”
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Concurrent Validity and Reliability of Two Mobile Phone Applications for Measuring Vertical Jumps in Amateur Handball Players by Amândio Dias, Alexandre Coutan, Bruno Silva, Catarina Eufrásio, Maria Teixeira, Mariana Alberto

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Skeletal Muscle Resident Progenitor Cells Coexpress Mesenchymal and Myogenic Markers and Are Not Affected by Chronic Heart Failure-Induced Dysregulations by R. I. Dmitrieva, T. A. Lelyavina, M. Y. Komarova, V. L. Galenko, O. A. Ivanova, P. A. Tikanova, N. V. Khromova, A. S. Golovkin, M. A. Bortsova, A. Sergushichev, M. Yu. Sitnikova, A. A. Kostareva

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Spleen as a Site for Hematopoiesis of a Distinct Antigen Presenting Cell Type by Helen C. O'Neill, Kristin L. Griffiths, Pravin Periasamy, Rebecca A. Hinton, Ying-Ying Hey, Sawang Petvises, Jonathan K. H. Tan

“…The novel dendritic-like cell identified in spleen is phenotypically and functionally distinct from other described antigen presenting cells. …”
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Mesenchymal Stromal Cells from the Epidermis and Dermis of Psoriasis Patients: Morphology, Immunophenotype, Differentiation Patterns, and Regulation of T Cell Proliferation by M. E. Castro-Manrreza, L. Bonifaz, O. Castro-Escamilla, A. Monroy-García, A. Cortés-Morales, E. Hernández-Estévez, J. Hernández-Cristino, H. Mayani, J. J. Montesinos

“…Psoriasis is a skin disease characterized by hyperproliferation of keratinocytes and chronic inflammation. Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) exhibit an immunoregulatory function that can be altered in the skin of these patients. …”
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Label-Free Imaging of Umbilical Cord Tissue Morphology and Explant-Derived Cells by Raf Donders, Kathleen Sanen, Rik Paesen, Eli Slenders, Wilfried Gyselaers, Piet Stinissen, Marcel Ameloot, Niels Hellings

“…In addition, antibody staining showed differences in Oct4, αSMA, vimentin, and ALDH1A1 expression in situ, indicating functional differences among the umbilical cord cell populations. …”
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Variability in Platelet-Rich Plasma Preparations Used in Regenerative Medicine: A Comparative Analysis by Raghvendra Vikram Tey, Pallavi Haldankar, Vivek R. Joshi, Rishi Raj, Ravindra Maradi

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Effect of Isolation Technique and Location on the Phenotype of Human Corneal Stroma-Derived Cells by Richárd Nagymihály, Zoltán Veréb, Andrea Facskó, Morten C. Moe, Goran Petrovski

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Sinusoidal Endothelial Cell Progenitor Cells Promote Tumour Progression in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Ya-xing Feng, Wei Li, Xu-dong Wen, Ning Zhang, Wei-hui Liu, Zhan-yu Yang

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IL-37 Gene Modification Enhances the Protective Effects of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells on Intestinal Ischemia Reperfusion Injury by Dejun Kong, Yonghao Hu, Xiang Li, Dingding Yu, Hongyue Li, Yiming Zhao, Yafei Qin, Wang Jin, Baoren Zhang, Bo Wang, Hongda Wang, Guangming Li, Hao Wang

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The Assessment of Parameters Affecting the Quality of Cord Blood by the Appliance of the Annexin V Staining Method and Correlation with CFU Assays by Teja Falk Radke, David Barbosa, Richard Charles Duggleby, Riccardo Saccardi, Sergio Querol, Gesine Kögler

“…However, the addition of DMSO for cryopreservation alone leads to an inevitable increase in nonviable haematopoietic stem cells from initially 14.8% ± 4.3% to at least 30.6% ± 5.5%. …”
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Quantification and Comprehensive Analysis of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Bone Marrow Samples from Sickle Cell Disease Patients with Osteonecrosis by Tiago O. Ribeiro, Paula B. Daltro, Gildasio Cerqueira Daltro, Songeli M. Freire, Roberto Meyer, Vitor Fortuna

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Identification and Characterization of the OCT4 Upstream Regulatory Region in Sus scrofa by Seung-Hun Kim, Kwang-Hwan Choi, Dong-Kyung Lee, Mingyun Lee, Jae Yeon Hwang, Chang-Kyu Lee

“…OCT4 plays pivotal roles in maintaining pluripotency during early mammalian embryonic development and in embryonic stem cells. It is essential to establish a reporter system based on the OCT4 promoter region to study pluripotency. …”
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Investigating the early osteogenic potential of strontium doped titanium alloy surface by Ali Alenezi, Mohamed Ahmed Alkhodary

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The circ_0054633/miR-590-3p/RUNX2 positive feedback loop promotes the osteogenic differentiation of BMSCs by Lingxiao Wang, Yang Liu, Zhanqiu Diao, Yishu Huang, Haoqing Yang, Yue Zhang, Bowen Zhou, Zhenhua Gao, Zhaochen Shan, Jun Li, Zhipeng Fan

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Unveiling tissue-specific transcriptional adaptations in iPSC-derived fibroblasts via co-culture systems by Amar J. Azad, Alessandro Bentivogli, Henrike Germar, Dana Wörz, Elena Lizunova, Max J. Cumberland, January Weiner, Sarah Hedtrich

“…Fibroblasts exhibit significant heterogeneity, with distinct subtypes playing critical roles in organ function and integrity. This study investigates whether iFBs can acquire tissue-specific transcriptional profiles through co-culture with cells from different germ layers, including skin (keratinocytes), heart (cardiomyocytes), gut (intestinal cells), and lung (bronchial epithelial cells). …”
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miRNA-125b-5p-rich exosomes derived from fibro-adipogenic progenitors promoting muscle regeneration through inducing pro-regenerative macrophages by Meng-meng Yang, Jing-ya Luo, Jia Cai, Jin Qian, Xiao-yan Zhu, Hui-zhen Zou, Gao-ming Li, Jing Dai, Huang Zhu, Wei Li, Li-dan Zhang, Xia Kang

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KRT5high TP63-expressing urothelial basal cells act as a driver to bladder urothelium regeneration in rabbit by Jiasheng Chen, Mingming Yu, Lin Wang, Hua Xie, Yiqing Lv, Yichen Huang, Yue Hong, Fang Chen

“…Results Via single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), it has been confirmed that the cluster of KRT5high TP63-expressing cells possesses a ‘‘stemness’’ signature which can give rise to lineage cell types sequentially. …”
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DMSO-free cryopreservation of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes: low temperature characterization and protocol development by Akshat S. Mallya, Tessa Burrows, Jeanne Hsieh, Troy Louwagie, James R. Dutton, Brenda M. Ogle, Allison Hubel

“…Abstract Background Human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) have attracted significant interest for use in disease modeling, drug discovery and potential therapeutic applications. …”
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Geometrical constraints dictate assembly and phenotype of human iPSC-derived motoneuronal spheroids by Eleonora Mello, Stefano Sorrentino, Alessio Bucciarelli, Ermanno Cordelli, Elisa De Luca, Haakon Nygaard, Stefan Wendt, Alberto Rainer, Giuseppe Gigli, Lorenzo Moroni, Alessandro Polini, Pamela Mozetic

“…This is even more exacerbated in case of pluripotent stem cell (PSC) derived spheroids, which remain challenging to standardize. …”
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