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Bone marrow as a potential source of hepatic oval cells.

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A stem cell associated with the bone marrow has epithelial cell lineage capability and a proportion of the regenerated hepatic cells were shown to be donor-derived.
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Bone marrow stem cells develop into hematopoietic and mesenchymal lineages but have not been known to participate in production of hepatocytes, biliary cells, or oval cells during liver regeneration. Cross-sex or cross-strain bone marrow and whole liver transplantation were used to trace the origin of the repopulating liver cells. Transplanted rats were treated with 2-acetylaminofluorene, to block hepatocyte proliferation, and then hepatic injury, to induce oval cell proliferation. Markers for Y chromosome, dipeptidyl peptidase IV enzyme, and L21-6 antigen were used to identify liver cells of bone marrow origin. From these cells, a proportion of the regenerated hepatic cells were shown to be donor-derived. Thus, a stem cell associated with the bone marrow has epithelial cell lineage capability.

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Lentiviral RNAi-induced downregulation of adenosine kinase in human mesenchymal stem cell grafts: a novel perspective for seizure control.

TL;DR: It is concluded that lentiviral expression of anti-ADK miRNA constitutes a versatile tool to generate therapeutically effective adenosine releasing hMSCs, thus representing a model system to generate patient identical autologous adult stem cell grafts.
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Mobilization of bone marrow-derived hematopoietic and endothelial stem cells after orthotopic liver transplantation and liver resection.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that tissue damage after OLT and liver resection induces increased serum levels of multiple cytokines but only ischemia/reperfusion injury associated with OLT results in the remarkable mobilization of BM stem/progenitor cells.
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Fetal human hematopoietic stem cells can differentiate sequentially into neural stem cells and then astrocytes in vitro.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that neural precursor gene expression can be induced when human hematopoietic stem cells are exposed to a suitable microenvironment and the neural stem cells generated in this environment can then differentiate into astrocytes.
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Adult neural stem cells: plasticity and developmental potential.

TL;DR: It is shown that, even in postnatal and adult mammals, neurogenesis does occur in different brain regions and that these regions actually contain adult stem cells, which can differentiate into non-CNS mesodermal-derivatives, such as blood cells and skeletal muscle cells.
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Transplanted BM and BM side population cells contribute progeny to the lung and liver in irradiated mice

TL;DR: Stem cells in BM can contribute to repair of tissue injury in some compartments, but not to the same extent in the lung and liver, but only in TBI recipients.
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Muscle Regeneration by Bone Marrow-Derived Myogenic Progenitors

TL;DR: Transplantation of genetically marked bone marrow into immunodeficient mice revealed that marrow-derived cells migrate into areas of induced muscle degeneration, undergo myogenic differentiation, and participate in the regeneration of the damaged fibers.
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In vivo differentiation of rat liver oval cells into hepatocytes.

TL;DR: The data indicate that oval cells can differentiate to hepatocytes and may have an important physiological function as a source of major serum proteins when hepatocytes are unable to synthesize these proteins.
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Presence of hematopoietic stem cells in the adult liver

TL;DR: The data obtained from the mouse study strongly suggest that hematopoietic stem cells residing in the donor liver are responsible for mixed chimerism and maintenance of tolerance after liver transplantation.
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Expression of stem cell factor and its receptor, c-kit, during liver regeneration from putative stem cells in adult rat.

TL;DR: The SCF/c-kit system may, possibly in combination with other growth factor/receptor systems, be involved in the early activation of the hepatic stem cells as well as in the expansion and differentiation of oval cells.
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Variable chimerism, graft-versus-host disease, and tolerance after different kinds of cell and whole organ transplantation from Lewis to brown Norway rats.

TL;DR: Both the GVHD propensity and tolerogenicity in these experiments were closely associated with recipient tissue chimerism 30 and 100 days after the experiments began, and these observations provide guidelines that should be considered in devising leukocyte augmentation protocols for human whole organ recipients.
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