Progress of mesenchymal stem cells in umbilical cord blood
- VernacularTitle:脐带血间充质干细胞的研究进展
- Author:
Zuohua CHI
;
Yuan ZHANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
umbilical cord blood;
mesenchymal stem cells;
differentiation
- From:
International Journal of Biomedical Engineering
2006;0(01):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
There are plenty of haematopoietic stem cells in umbilical cord blood, which are regarded as important resources for transplantation therapy. There are some arguments on whether or not mesenchymal stem cells(MSCs) exist in umbilical cord blood. Some researchers have such opinions that there exist a number of MSCs in umbilical cord blood as similar with one from bone marrow in many aspects. Others believe that the content of MSCs in umbilical cord blood is too low to expand in vitro. We summarized the data from last five years researches. On umbilical cord blood MSCs during last to help further research and application of this resource of MSCs.
