Derivation of lung epithelium from bone marrow cells.

Kotton, D N; Fine, A · Cytotherapy · 2003

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Recent studies demonstrate the capacity of BM-derived cells to engraft as differentiated cells of a variety of organs, including lung. In this paper, we review the current state-of-the-art in this area. We also summarize our work demonstrating that cultured adherent marrow cells can serve as progenitors of lung alveolar epithelium.

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