What are the limits to cell plasticity?
@@ It is now well established that the fate of a somatic cell is not fixed rigidly and that there is a significant degree of cell plasticity. The term plasticity refers to the opportunity to change differentiated cells from one cell type to another. Over the past 25 years a series of papers have each demonstrated that plasticity is wider than had previously been under-stood ”1-4”. An exciting recent article by Thomas Vierbuchen and colleagues at Stanford University extended that series by describing a method for directly re-programming mouse fibroblast cells into neurons without the need to generate a stem cell intermediary.
fibroblast cells、significant、stem cell、extended、Thomas、degree、type
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Q2(细胞生物学)
2010-06-28(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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