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by Tudor Toma

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Blood vessels grow from adult bone marrow

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020205-02

Published

5 February 2002

Endothelial stem cells can persist into adult life, contributing to the formation of new blood vessels, but the origin and continued development of endothelial progenitors remains unclear. In February 1 Journal of Clinical Investigation, Morayma Reyes and colleagues from University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, USA, show that adult bone marrow stem cells can expand in vitro into a significant number of endothelial cells that engraft in vivo and contribute to neoangiogenesis.

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