Table 3. Some therapeutic applications of fetal stem cells isolated from fetal and extra embryonic tissues, modified from ref. 16.

Origin and cell type	Treated recipient	Regenerated tissue	Method of cell delivey	Disease treated	References
Human fetal tissue blood and kidney	Oim mice	Bone	Intrauterine transplantation	Osteogenesis imperfect (OI)	Guillot et al., 200878
Human liver	Human fetus diagnosed with severe OI	Bone	Intrauterine transplantation	OI	Le Blanc et al., 200579
Human pancreas	Sheep	Pancreas	Intrauterine transplantation	Type II diabetes	Ersek et al., 201080
Human extraembryonic cord blood	Human	Bone marrow	Systematic administration	Malignant and non-malignant blood disorders	Broxmeyer 201037
Human amniotic fluid	Mouse	Lung	Systematic administration	Lung injury	Carraro et al., 200881
	Rat	Heart	Intramyocardial injection	Myocardial infarction	Yeh et al., 201082
	Rat	Smooth muscle	Cell injected into site of injury	Wound healing of injured bladder	De Coppi et al., 200783
Human placenta	Mouse	Brain	Intarcrania injection	Parkinson disease	Kong et al., 200884