Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation
Date: March 8, 2007 - Posted on Medical News Today 11 March 2007
Summary:
In a study that appears online in advance of publication in the April print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor researchers show that in transplanted human lungs there is a tissue-resident population of mesenchymal (blood) stem cells (MSCs). Cells that expressed the cell surface molecules known to characterize MSCs and that were able to generate various connective tissue cells were isolated from transplanted human lungs.
