Stem cells: Fusion brings down barriers

Alexander Medvinsky; Austin Smith

doi:10.1038/422823a

Stem cells: Fusion brings down barriers

Alexander Medvinsky^*, Austin Smith

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Biological Sciences

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Abstract

It remains uncertain how tissue-specific stem cells could generate the mature cell types of another tissue. In one instance, where bone-marrow-derived stem cells repair damaged liver in mice, cell fusion is the answer.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	823-825
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nature
Volume	422
Issue number	6934
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/422823a
Publication status	Published - 24 Apr 2003

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