Research progress in bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells / 中国病理生理杂志

ABSTRACT

Bone marrow stroma provides the microenvironment for hematopoiesis and is also the source of mesenchymal stem cells. Marrow mesenchymal stem cells are capable of self-renewal and differentiation into all mesodermal cell types and neuro-ectodermal cells, such as osteoblast, chondrocyte, myoblast, T/L fibroblast, stromal cell, adipocytes, neuron, astrocytes, and so on. These abilities make the mesenchymal stem cells as an excellent target cell of tissue engineering, cell transplantation and gene therapy.