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Article: Stem Cells Found in Adult Peripheral Nervous System.
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- August 14, 2002
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Byline: University of Michigan Health System
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the University of Michigan Medical School have found neural crest stem cells - primitive cells that generate the peripheral nervous system - in the gut of adult laboratory rats. The U-M discovery upsets the widely held belief that neural crest stem cells disappear in animals before birth, once the peripheral nervous system develops.
U-M scientists reported their research results in two papers published in the Aug.15 issue of Neuron.
"We know that stem cells exist in the adult central nervous system," says Sean J. Morrison, Ph.D., a Howard ...