An efficient two-step method to purify very small embryonic-like (VSEL) stem cells from umbilical cord blood (UCB).

The identification in murine bone marrow (BM) of very small embryonic-like (VSEL) stem cells, possessing several features of pluripotent stem cells, encouraged us to investigate if similar population of cells could be also isolated from the human umbilical cord blood (UCB). Here our approach to puri...

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Main Authors: Magdalena Baskiewicz-Masiuk, Maciej Halasa, Elzbieta Dabkowska, Bogusław Machalinski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Via Medica 2008-06-01
Series:Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica
Online Access:http://czasopisma.viamedica.pl/fhc/article/view/4434