TY - JOUR
T1 - Pluripotency of mesenchymal stem cells derived from adult marrow
AU - Jiang, Yuehua
AU - Jahagirdar, Balkrishna N.
AU - Reinhardt, R. Lee
AU - Schwartz, Robert E.
AU - Keene, C. Dirk
AU - Ortiz-Gonzalez, Xilma R.
AU - Reyes, Morayma
AU - Lenvik, Todd
AU - Lund, Troy
AU - Blackstad, Mark
AU - Du, Jingbo
AU - Aldrich, Sara
AU - Lisberg, Aaron
AU - Low, Walter C.
AU - Lergaespada, David A.
AU - Verfaillie, Catherine M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank M. Jenkins for technical support. This work was supported by NIH grants, the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the Children’s Cancer Research Fund, the Tulloch Family Foundation, and the McKnight Foundation. R.E.S., C.D.K., X.R.O.-G. and M.R. are supported by the NIH-MSTP programme at the University of Minnesota.
PY - 2002/7
Y1 - 2002/7
N2 - We report here that cells co-purifying with mesenchymal stem cells - termed here multipotent adult progenitor cells or MAPCs - differentiate, at the single cell level, not only into mesenchymal cells, but also cells with visceral mesoderm, neuroectoderm and endoderm characteristics in vitro. When injected into an early blastocyst, single MAPCs contribute to most, if not all, somatic cell types. On transplantation into a non-irradiated host, MAPCs engraft and differentiate to the haematopoietic lineage, in addition to the epithelium of liver, lung and gut. Engraftment in the haematopoietic system as well as the gastrointestinal tract is increased when MAPCs are transplanted in a minimally irradiated host. As MAPCs proliferate extensively without obvious senescence or loss of differentiation potential, they may be an ideal cell source for therapy of inherited or degenerative diseases.
AB - We report here that cells co-purifying with mesenchymal stem cells - termed here multipotent adult progenitor cells or MAPCs - differentiate, at the single cell level, not only into mesenchymal cells, but also cells with visceral mesoderm, neuroectoderm and endoderm characteristics in vitro. When injected into an early blastocyst, single MAPCs contribute to most, if not all, somatic cell types. On transplantation into a non-irradiated host, MAPCs engraft and differentiate to the haematopoietic lineage, in addition to the epithelium of liver, lung and gut. Engraftment in the haematopoietic system as well as the gastrointestinal tract is increased when MAPCs are transplanted in a minimally irradiated host. As MAPCs proliferate extensively without obvious senescence or loss of differentiation potential, they may be an ideal cell source for therapy of inherited or degenerative diseases.
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U2 - 10.1038/nature00870
DO - 10.1038/nature00870
M3 - Article
C2 - 12077603
AN - SCOPUS:0037019337
SN - 0028-0836
VL - 418
SP - 41
EP - 49
JO - Nature
JF - Nature
IS - 6893
ER -
