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Isolation of three stem cell lines from human sacrococcygeal teratomas.
The Journal of pathology - 1 Mar 2009
Busch Christian, Bareiss Petra M, Sinnberg Tobias, Just Lothar, Wehrmann Manfred, Fuchs Jörg, Garbe Claus, Drews Ulrich
Abstract excerpt
Sacrococcygeal teratomas (SCTs) are benign tumours of the newborn with absolute indication for surgery directly after birth. We recently described the presence of stem cells positive for the stem cell markers nanog and Oct4 in SCTs. Here we report the isolation of three stem cell lines from three different SCTs. Cells were propagated in mesenchymal or in embryonic stem cell medium. Non-clonal homogeneous stem...
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