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Mesenchymal stem cells: from biology to clinical use.
1 Jul 2007
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Stem cells are immature progenitor cells capable of self-renewal and multilineage differentiation through a process of asymmetric mitosis that leads to two daughter cells, one identical to the stem cell and one capable of differentiation into more mature cells. Stem cells may be: 1) totipotent, i.e. early embryonic cells (1–3 days from oocyte fertilization), which can give rise to all the embryonic tissues and...
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