Prior to joining ViaCyte, Dr. D'Amour performed pre-doctoral research with Dr. Fred Gage at The Salk Institute where he studied
stem cell plasticity in neural stem cells.
Cédric Maurange, 2nd Call 2010 Institute of Developmental Biology of Marseille - Luminy Neural
stem cell plasticity in Drosophila
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Molecular mechanisms of
stem cell plasticity and regenerative neurogenesis in adult zebrafish brain
To identify the molecular mechanisms of neural
stem cell plasticity in adult zebrafish brain after various types of tissue damage or physiological stimulations
Not exact matches
But there are also neural
stem cells as well as early progenitors that have this
plasticity in most of the other systems of the body.
Context, tissue
plasticity, and cancer: are tumor
stem cells also regulated by the microenvironment?
Furthermore,
stem cells in bone marrow may form not just hematopoietic
cells, but cardiac muscle
cells, neural
cells, and other types of
cells; this is an example of
stem -
cell plasticity.
These findings suggest that regenerating organisms such as zebrafish could use special molecular programs to modulate the
plasticity of the neural
stem cells and enable restoration of compromised neural tissues.
Stem cells have the
plasticity to potentially differentiate into any type of tissue
cells.
Title: «Hearts and bones»: the ups and downs of «
plasticity» in
stem cell biology Authors: Bonfanti P, Barrandon Y, Cossu G Date: 2012 Publication Details: EMBO MOlecular Medicine 2012 May 4 (5): 353 - 361
The researchers say the special «
plasticity» of the blood
stem cell that allows them to be transformed to a heart
cell, holds important clues about how leukemia and other blood diseases develop and how they can be controlled.
Dr. Dean Tang Receives Sanofi -
Cell Research Outstanding Paper Award (11/04/2013) Dr. Dean Tang of the Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis received the 2012 Sanofi - Cell Research Outstanding Review Article Award for his review paper entitled, «Understanding cancer stem cell heterogeneity and plasticity,» published in March, 2
Cell Research Outstanding Paper Award (11/04/2013) Dr. Dean Tang of the Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis received the 2012 Sanofi -
Cell Research Outstanding Review Article Award for his review paper entitled, «Understanding cancer stem cell heterogeneity and plasticity,» published in March, 2
Cell Research Outstanding Review Article Award for his review paper entitled, «Understanding cancer
stem cell heterogeneity and plasticity,» published in March, 2
cell heterogeneity and
plasticity,» published in March, 2012.
In general, adult
stem cells have low
plasticity, although reports of differentiation outside traditional lineage boundaries suggest that some adult
stem cells may be more pluripotent rather than multipotent.1