Stefanie Liedtke

TL;DR: A new, intrinsically pluripotent, CD45-negative population from human cord blood, termed unrestricted somatic stem cells (USSCs) is described, which grows adherently and can be expanded to 1015 cells without losing pluripotency.

TL;DR: It is shown that muscle pericytes, which are not spontaneously osteochondrogenic as previously claimed, may indeed coincide with an ectopic perivascular subset of committed myogenic cells similar to satellite cells, and the data support the view that different mesoderm derivatives include distinct classes of tissue-specific committed progenitors, possibly of different developmental origin.

TL;DR: Analysis of the sequences of human Oct4 and its pseudogenes and designed PCR primers that can avoid false positive detection of Oct4 expression are analyzed to avoid artifacts generated by pseudogene transcripts.

TL;DR: The recent findings onOct4 expression are summarized and possibilities and reasons why several false positive results on Oct4 expression still occur are presented, to avoid these positive signals.

TL;DR: Whether cells isolated from human UC fulfill the criteria defined for MSC, the immunophenotype and differentiation potential including gene expression analysis of the most relevant lineage-specific markers were analyzed in the presented report in combination with the HOX-gene expression.