Regenerative medicine approaches for Women's Health
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- Submission deadline
Women have been understudied and underrepresented in biological research, resulting in substantial gender disparities in science and healthcare. Women’s health includes conditions that are female sex- and gender-specific plus those that affect women disproportionately or differently. The goal of regenerative medicine is to promote regeneration or constructive remodeling of the host tissues, by facilitating or enabling the endogenous regeneration, or delivering exogenous cells or constructs. Despite their wide application and significant positive impact on various medical disciplines, regenerative approaches deployed in women’s health are strikingly behind those in other fields. Women are generally different in size and body composition and have different physiology, including receptors for sex hormones that vary from menarche to after menopause. Regenerative medicine approaches present opportunities for creation of in vitro and in vivo preclinical model systems for studying these effects in the laboratory as well as development of novel treatment paradigms for eventual clinical use. This Collection will focus on bench-to-bedside and back approach and welcomes regenerative medicine research across the range of development phases from early- to pre-clinical to translational development.
Editors
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Marianna Alperin, M.D., M.S.
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA; Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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Michelle Oyen, PhD
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA.
