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Isolation of multipotent neural crest-derived stem cells from the adult mouse cornea.
Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio) - 1 Dec 2006
Yoshida Satoru, Shimmura Shigeto, Nagoshi Narihito, Fukuda Keiichi, Matsuzaki Yumi, Okano Hideyuki, Tsubota Kazuo
Abstract excerpt
We report the presence of neural crest-derived corneal precursors (COPs) that initiate spheres by clonal expansion from a single cell. COPs expressed the stem cell markers nestin, Notch1, Musashi-1, and ABCG2 and showed the side population cell phenotype. COPs were multipotent with the ability to...
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