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Human Umbilical Cord Blood Progenitors: The Potential of These Hematopoietic Cells to Become Neural
5 Aug 2005
Abstract excerpt
The mononuclear fraction from human umbilical cord blood (HUCB) contains a significant number of stem/progenitor cells that in theory could be come any cell in the body, including neurons. Taking into consideration that transdifferentiation would be a very rare event and also knowing that overlapping genetic programs for hematopoiesis and neuropoiesis exist, we undertook a characterization of the HUCB mononuclear...
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