¿Que significa el concepto de "nicho de células madre"?

Las células madres residen en microambientes especializados conocidos como nichos, que existen para los diferentes tipos celulares y tienen sus características.

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Focus on stem cells.

What does the concept of the stem cell niche really mean today?

Arthur D Lander1*, Judith Kimble2, Hans Clevers3, Elaine Fuchs4, Didier Montarras5, Margaret Buckingham5, Anne L Calof6, Andreas Trumpp7,8 and Thordur Oskarsson9

* Corresponding author: Arthur D Lander adlander@uci.edu

Author Affiliations

1 Center for Complex Biological Systems, 2638 Biological Sciences III, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-2300, USA

2 341E Biochemistry Addition, Department of Biochemistry, 433 Babcock Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1544, USA

3 Hubrecht Institute, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands

4 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA

5 Institut Pasteur, CNRS URA2578, Département de Biologie du Développement, 28 rue du, Dr Roux, 75015 Paris, France

6 Dept of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Developmental and Cell Biology, and the Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-1275, USA

7 Divison of Stem Cells and Cancer, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany

8 HI-STEM – Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology and Experimental Medicine, gGmbH, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany

9 Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology and Experimental Medicine (HI-STEM), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany

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BMC Biology 2012, 10:19 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-10-19

The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/10/19

Received: 2 March 2012
Accepted: 9 March 2012
Published: 9 March 2012

© 2012 Lander et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

Además de puede obtener mas información ya que la editorial Springer brinda un capítulo de muestra de su libro ¨Biología de las células madres hematopoyéticas¨ que trata de las células madres hematopoyéticas y sus nichos. Idioma: inglés
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Biology. Springer 2010. Sample Chapter: Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Their Niche
abr 5th, 2010

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Biology. Springer 2010. Sample Chapter: Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Their Niche

Dormancy in the stem cell niche
Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2012, 3:10 doi:10.1186/scrt101

The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://stemcellres.com/content/3/2/10