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- noun cytology, developmental biology The ability of a progenitor cell to develop into a limited number of cell types
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To confirm that the immortal T-IhNSCs lines that we had established did, in fact, bear the features of hNSCs, we proceeded by establishing as to whether they possessed the defining hNSCs feature known as multipotency, i.e. the ability to generate all the three major neural cell types: neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes
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“Stromal stem cells derived from menstrual blood exhibit stem cell properties, such as the capacity for self-renewal and multipotency,” said Amit N.
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Satellite cells function as adult muscle stem cells but are proposed to possess multipotency.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Akiyoshi Uezumi 2010
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Satellite cells function as adult muscle stem cells but are proposed to possess multipotency.
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STAT3 is required for proliferation and maintenance of multipotency in glioblastoma stem cells
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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The stem cells from the testes seem to hover in a gray area between true pluripotency and the more limited, tissue-specific multipotency exhibited by many types of adult stem cells.
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The stem cells from the testes seem to hover in a gray area between true pluripotency and the more limited, tissue-specific multipotency exhibited by many types of adult stem cells.
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The stem cells from the testes seem to hover in a gray area between true pluripotency and the more limited, tissue-specific multipotency exhibited by many types of adult stem cells.
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The stem cells from the testes seem to hover in a gray area between true pluripotency and the more limited, tissue-specific multipotency exhibited by many types of adult stem cells.
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The stem cells from the testes seem to hover in a gray area between true pluripotency and the more limited, tissue-specific multipotency exhibited by many types of adult stem cells.
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