The postulated almost unlimited potential of transplanted hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) to transdifferentiate into cell types that do not belong to the hematopoietic system denotes a complete paradigm shift of the hierarchical hemopoietic tree...
Keywords: fusion, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, humans, microchimerism, organ repair, plasticity, transdifferentiation
07/2008 | Biological Chemistry, Walter de Gruyter