Stem Cell Research

Reports from University of Nevada describe recent advances in stem cell research

Published in Blood Weekly, January 3rd, 2008

In this recent report, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To investigate whether the sheep xenograft model of human hematopoiesis can be used to mimic mobilization of human hematopoietic stem cells in vivo. Sheep transplanted with 3.6 x 10(6) CD34(+) from human adult bone marrow were mobilized 1.5 years posttransplantation with human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor for 5 days."

"At day 3 and 4 of mobilization, human cells were harvested from peripheral blood (PB) and bone marrow (BM) and were injected into secondary sheep recipients (n = 6) and these animals were analyzed for the presence of human cells in their BM and PB, starting at 3.5 months...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2008-01-03)

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