Preterm neonatal brain injury: are human amnion epithelial stem cells a pan-treatment for neuroprotection and neurorepair?

Premature birth,defined as birth before 37 weeks completed gestation,represents 11.1%of all live births worldwide and the rate has increased in almost all countries over the past few decades(Dhillon et al.,2018).Although mortality after preterm birth has fallen steadily over time,preterm infants continue to have very high rates of neurodevelopmental disability,including severe motor disorders such as cerebral palsy(Dhillon et al.,2018;Yates et al.,2021).