Article: STEM CELLS ENGAGE IN DIALOGUE WITH CELLS THAT REGULATE THEIR FUTURE

Article: Defining a Niche that Regulates Stem Cells.
Blood Weekly;  November 9, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... environment that provides stem cells with the support ... characterized the niche cells that govern the ... embryonic germline stem cells - those cells in ... often one of the stem cells, in effect, makes ... the surrounding niche cells is the most important ...

Article: New method of identifying and isolating stem cells ...
Blood Weekly;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... and so few in number, stem cells are used sparingly by ... cells are actually stem cells. These slow-cycling ... several years ago that skin niche cells (so called label-retaining ... retaining cells were skin stem cells, the Fuchs team developed ...

Article: Migratory adult stem cells could be exploited to ...
Blood Weekly;  July 24, 2003 ;     682 words ... ... Migratory adult stem cells could be exploited to ... rodents, that allow adult stem cells to be surprisingly flexible ... property allows adult stem cells, assumed until now to ... appropriate to their new niche. Cells normally present within ...

Article: Cell-extracellular matrix interactions regulate neural ...
BMC Developmental Biology;  September 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... microenvironment housing stem cells that regulates their ... niche are provided by niche cells, soluble factors and ... extracellular signals to stem cells via integrin receptors ... neural differentiation of stem cells. The ability of embryonic ...

Article: Rb and hematopoiesis: stem cells to ...
Cell Division;  September 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... roles for the cell cycle in the regulation of hematopoietic stem cells and in the coupling of cell cycle arrest to cellular differentiation ... the presence of concomitant deletion of Rb in myeloid and niche cells causing a myeloproliferative-type disorder, as has been ...

Article: Stem Cells Battle for Space.
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  December 4, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... be the survival of the fittest, how stem cells duke it out for space and survival is ... Johns Hopkins researchers describes how stem cells win this battle by literally sticking ... signal coordinately maintains two types of stem cells in a single niche, or microenvironment ...

Article: Stem cells not clear solution to cure diseases.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  August 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... few Americans concerned themselves with stem cells. Now the phrase conjures up hope for ... big money for biotech companies. Yet stem cells are still a long way from curing paralysis ... mired in confusion and controversy. Stem cells turn out to be more complicated and less ...