Characterization of Multipotent Adult Progenitor Cells, a Subpopulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells

REYES, MORAYMA
VERFAILLIE, CATHERINE M.

Stem Cell Institute and Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA

Address for correspondence: Catherine M. Verfaillie, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Box 806 UMHC, 420 Delaware Street, S.E., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455. Voice: 612-624-3921; fax: 612-626-4074.

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 938:p 231-235, June 2001.

Mesenchymal stem cells were isolated and a subpopulation of cells—multipotent adult progenitor cells—were identified that have the potential for multilineage differentiation. Their ability to engraft and differentiate in vivo is under investigation.