The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for treating chronic stroke, involving injection via brain into the cranium of a patient having chronic stroke for six months or more; the pharmaceutical composition is a suspension at least comprising TS stem cells, an active synergistic component and a growth factor, wherein the expression level of CD34 and CD45 of the TS stem cells is 10% or less, and the expression level of CD90 and CD105 is 90% or more; the active synergistic component is an extracellular vesicle; the growth factor is at least one selected from the group consisting of HGF, G-CSF, Fractalkine, IP-10, EGF, IL-1α, IL-1β, IL-4, IL-5, IL-13, IFNγ, TGFα and sCD40L. The present invention overcomes the limitations of previous cell therapy and provides a cell-based preparation that is clinically safe and therapeutically effective for chronic cerebral stroke.

The improved 4-5 day, optionally 3-5 day GMP-compliant in-vitro method enables the production of macrophages from monocytes that benefits from a shorter cell culture time, fewer interventions whilst maintaining the desired characteristics of the human macrophages. The present invention describes a method wherein the monocytes are cultured in medium comprising one or more growth actors to stimulate macrophages with a pro-regenerative phenotype. The method described herein is xeno-free, serum-free and GMP compliant. In addition, further disclosed are macrophages produced according to the present invention and the use of said macrophages in the treatment of liver diseases, such as liver cirrhosis.

The present invention provides modified monocytes, modified macrophages, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the modified monocytes or modified macrophages described herein and at least one pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or excipient. Uses of the modified monocytes or the modified macrophages for the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and inducing cartilage formation are provided. Also disclosed herein are in vitro culture methods for generating the modified macrophages.

The use of a muscle stem cell in the preparation of a drug for preventing, alleviating and treating metabolic disorders, and a pharmaceutical composition for humans and animals, wherein the pharmaceutical composition comprises the muscle stem cell as a first active ingredient, a second active ingredient for regulating the glucose metabolism, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.

The present invention relates to an isolated cellular targeted delivery system comprising a CD45.sup.+ leukocyte cell comprising within said cell a complex of one or more iron binding proteins and an active ingredient as well as methods for producing such isolated cellular targeted delivery system and uses of such system for therapy, in particular for therapy of cancer.

The present invention relates to an isolated cellular targeted delivery system comprising a CD45+ leukocyte cell comprising within said cell a complex of one or more iron binding proteins and an active pharmaceutically active substance and/or label as well as methods for producing such isolated cellular targeted delivery system and uses of such system for prophylaxis, therapy, diagnosis or theragnosis, in particular for prophylactic or therapeutic vaccination, therapy of cancer, particularly metastatic cancer or inflammatory diseases.

The present invention relates to alternatively activated macrophages (AAMs) for use in the treatment of liver injury and methods of treating and preventing liver injury using AAMs.

The present invention relates to an isolated cellular targeted delivery system comprising a CD45+ leukocyte cell comprising within said cell a complex of one or more iron binding proteins and/or a label as well as methods for producing such isolated cellular targeted delivery system and uses of such system for therapy diagnosis and in particular for diagnosis of cancer, particularly metastatic cancer, in particular for therapy of cancer.

Provided is a method for producing an economical bovine serum composition containing many factors useful for cell proliferation. The method includes a step of performing an anticoagulation treatment of bovine whole blood with an anticoagulant, a step of obtaining a buffy coat and a fraction with a heavier specific gravity than that of the buffy coat from the anticoagulated whole blood, and a step of promoting and activating an interaction between the obtained leukocytes and platelets at a given temperature for not less than a given time to cause secretion or release of a humoral factor from the leukocytes and/or platelets and performing a recoagulation treatment of blood components including the humoral factor with a re-coagulating agent.

Novel MSC stem-cell culture and therapy methods and culture medium compositions for the purpose of inducing, activating, or priming discrete uniform cell phenotypes to selectively promote or suppress inflammation and immunity, yielding polarized, primed, activated, or induced cells used in cell-based therapy.