Multipotent stem cells from adult olfactory mucosa

Autor: Karisha Jade Splatt, Wayne Murrell, Nicholas Cameron, Chris T. Perry, John Bianco, Bernadette Bellette, Francois Feron, Alan Mackay-Sim, Gabriel Yin Foo Lee, Andrew Roberts Wetzig
Přispěvatelé: Khrestchatisky, Michel, Neurobiologie des interactions cellulaires et neurophysiopathologie - NICN (NICN), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Developmental Dynamics
Developmental Dynamics, 2005, 233(2), pp.496-515
ISSN: 1097-0177
1058-8388
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20360
Popis: Multipotent stem cells are thought to be responsible for the generation of new neurons in the adult brain. Neurogenesis also occurs in an accessible part of the nervous system, the olfactory mucosa. We show here that cells from human olfactory mucosa generate neurospheres that are multipotent in vitro and when transplanted into the chicken embryo. Cloned neurosphere cells show this multipotency. Multipotency was evident without prior culture in vitro: cells dissociated from adult rat olfactory mucosa generate leukocytes when transplanted into bone marrow-irradiated hosts, and cells dissociated from adult mouse olfactory epithelium generated numerous cell types when transplanted into the chicken embryo. It is unlikely that these results can be attributed to hematopoietic precursor contamination or cell fusion. These results demonstrate the existence of a multipotent stem-like cell in the olfactory mucosa useful for autologous transplantation therapies and for cellular studies of disease.
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