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Detection of bone marrow-derived cells expressing a neural phenotype in the human brain.
Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology - 1 Feb 2007
Sostak Petra, Theil Diethilde, Stepp Herbert, Roeber Sigrun, Kretzschmar Hans A, Straube Andreas
Abstract excerpt
Animal studies suggest that adult bone marrow cells have the potential to migrate into the brain and generate new neural cells. Because data on this physiologic repair mechanism in humans are lacking, we investigated bone marrow engraftment into the brain of bone marrow recipients after sex-mismatched transplantation. Brain sections of seven allogeneic female bone marrow recipients were examined. The...
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