Do adipose tissue-derived stem cells enhance bioprosthetic mesh repair of ventral hernias?
Preseeded and injected adipose tissue-derived stem cells engraft, migrate, proliferate, and enhance the vascularity of porcine acellular dermal matrix grafts at the musculofascial/graft interface. These cells can thus enhance incorporation of porcine acellular dermal matrix into the abdominal wall after repair of ventral hernias.
This study thus demonstrates the presence of highly activated PMNs in HIV-infected patients receiving effective ART and the association of these cells with a specific IL-17/IL-22 environment.