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Abstract
The human endometrium is a dynamic, cyclically regenerating tissue. Because adult stem cells are present in other regenerative tissues, a clonal analysis of purified endometrial epithelial and stromal cells derived from hysterectomy tissue was undertaken, as a first attempt to identify and characterise endometrial stem/progenitor cells. Rare populations of epithelial and stromal cells were clonogenic. Only those cells initiating large clones, 0.09% of epithelial cells and 0.02% of stromal cells, are likely to be endometrial stem/progenitor cells.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16704483 DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2006.00582.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol ISSN: 0004-8666 Impact factor: 2.100