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VERY SMALL EMBRYONIC LIKE STEM CELLS (VSELS) ISOLATED FROM ADULT TISSUES - AN UPDATE

Accumulating evidence demonstrates that adult tissues contain a population of very pluripotent stem cells and recently our group identified a population of very small stem cells in murine bone marrow and other adult organs that express several markers characteristic for epiblast/germ line-derived cells. We named these rare cells "very small embryonic/epiblast like stem cells (VSELs)'. We hypothesized that these cells, which are deposited during early gastrulation in developing tissues/organs, play an important role in the turnover of tissue-specific/committed stem cells.

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Andrzej Łukaszyk - przewodniczący, Zofia Bielańska-Osuchowska, Szczepan Biliński, Mieczysław Chorąży, Aleksander Koj, Włodzimierz Korochoda, Leszek Kuźnicki, Aleksandra Stojałowska, Lech Wojtczak

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