| Literature DB >> 18459073 |
Mariusz Z Ratajczak1, Ewa K Zuba-Surma, Bogdan Machalinski, Janina Ratajczak, Magda Kucia.
Abstract
In this review, we discuss current views of the bone marrow (BM) stem cell (SC) compartment and present data showing that BM contains heterogeneous populations of hematopoietic (H)SCs and non-HSCs. These cells are variously described in the literature as: endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs); mesenchymal (M)SCs; multipotent adult progenitor cells (MAPCs); marrow-isolated adult multilineage inducible (MIAMI) cells; and multipotent adult (MA)SCs. In some cases, it is likely that similar or overlapping populations of primitive SCs in the BM detected using various experimental strategies were assigned different names. Recently, we purified rare CXC chemokine receptor 4 expressing (CXCR4(+)) small SCs from the murine BM that express markers characteristic for embryonic (E)SCs, epiblast (EP)SCs, and primordial germ cells (PGCs). We named these primitive cells very small embryonic-like (VSEL) SCs. Our data indicate that VSELs may differentiate into cells from all three germ layers.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18459073 DOI: 10.1007/s12015-008-9018-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Stem Cell Rev ISSN: 1550-8943 Impact factor: 5.739