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Biological characteristics of stem cells from foetal, cord blood and extraembryonic tissues.
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface - 6 Dec 2010
Abdulrazzak Hassan, Moschidou Dafni, Jones Gemma, Guillot Pascale V
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Foetal stem cells (FSCs) can be isolated during gestation from many different tissues such as blood, liver and bone marrow as well as from a variety of extraembryonic tissues such as amniotic fluid and placenta. Strong evidence suggests that these cells differ on many biological aspects such as growth kinetics, morphology, immunophenotype, differentiation potential and engraftment capacity in vivo. Despite these...
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