However, in developing brain cells, the researchers found TLR3 activation also influences 41 genes that add up to a double whammy in this model — diminished stem cell
differentiation into brain cells and increased cell suicide, a carefully controlled process known as apoptosis.
Stem
cells have also been identified in human milk, and have the potential to differentiate
into mammary epithelial lineages under mammary
differentiation conditions in vitro, as well as other
cell types in corresponding microenvironments, including bone
cells,
brain cells, liver
cells, pancreatic beta
cells and heart
cells.