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The ability of a stem cell to divide and produce copies of itself for an indefinite period of time. This is the defining property of stem cells.
Industry:Medical
A type of white blood cell and a versatile part of the immune system. Constantly on patrol, macrophages can find and kill many different kinds of bacteria. They are usually the first responders to any invasion of the body.
Industry:Medical
Increase in potency. Occurs naturally in regenerative organisms (dedifferentiation). Induced experimentally in mammalian cells by nuclear transfer, cell fusion, genetic manipulation or in vitro culture.
Industry:Medical
Reconstruction of diseased or injured tissue by activation of resident cells or by cell transplantation.
Industry:Medical
Generic term for any dividing cell with the capacity to give rise to another cell type. Includes possible stem cells in which self-renewal has not yet been demonstrated.
Industry:Medical
Able to form all the body's cell lineages, including germ cells, and some or even all extraembryonic cell types. Example: embryonic stem cells.
Industry:Medical
Unproven notion that tissue stem cells may be able to generate the cell types of another tissue under certain conditions.
Industry:Medical
Able to form two or more mature cell types within a tissue. For example, neural stem cells that can create a subset of neurons in the brain are oligopotent.
Industry:Medical
Cellular micro-environment providing the support and stimuli necessary to sustain self-renewal
Industry:Medical
