Formation of haematopoietic microenvironment and haematopoietic stem cells from single human bone marrow stem cells.

Haematopoietic stem cells are a population of cells capable both of self renewal and of differentiation into a variety of haematopoietic lineages. Enrichment techniques of human haematopoietic stem cells have used the expression of CD34, present on bone marrow progenitor cells. But most CD34+ bone marrow cells are committed to their lineage, and more recent efforts have focused on the precise characterization of the pluripotent subset of CD34+ cells. Here we report the characterization of two distinct subsets of pluripotent stem cells from human fetal bone marrow, a CD34+, HLA-DR+, CD38- subset that can differentiate into all haematopoietic lineages, and a distinct more primitive subset, that is CD34+, HLA-DR-, CD38-, that can differentiate into haematopoietic precursors and stromal cells capable of supporting the differentiation of these precursors. These data represent, to our knowledge, the first identification of a single cell capable of reconstituting the haematopoietic cells and their associated bone marrow microenvironment.     

人骨髓间充质干细胞对小鼠神经干细胞增殖与分化培养的影响

通过在体外培养、鉴定人的骨髓间充质干细胞与小鼠神经干细胞,用骨髓间充质干细胞条件培养基分别在增殖与分化条件下对神经干细胞进行培养.发现,间充质干细胞条件培养基在增殖条件下能加快神经球内神经干细胞的迁移,使神经球解聚,对神经干细胞增殖没有影响;而间充质干细胞条件培养基在分化条件下,能增加神经干细胞向少突胶质细胞分化的能力,降低向星型胶质细胞的分化能力,对向神经元分化能力没有影响,间充质干细胞可能是通过促进神经干细胞迁移、分化而加快神经损伤的修复的.     

成人骨髓基质细胞的体外培养

本研究从成人的髋骨抽取骨髓液，离心后将骨髓基质细胞悬液接种培养，待细胞贴壁融合后，进行传代扩增培养．并采用流式细胞术进行细胞周期分析，结果表明原代培养和传代培养的细胞均为贴壁、形态不一的骨髓基质细胞，且此体外培养的骨髓基质细胞具有很强的增殖能力．本研究成功地建立了一套完整、简单、可行的体外分离、长期培养扩增人骨髓基质细胞(Human Bone Marrow Stromal Cells hBMSCs)的系统，证明成人骨髓基质细胞能够在体外长期增殖，为人的骨髓基盾细胞的理论研究和临床应用奠定了基础.     

Epidermal Langerhans cells are derived from cells originating in bone marrow

Langerhans cells constitute a morphologically well characterised subpopulation (3--8%) of mammalian epidermal cells which, in contrast to the bulk of epidermal cells, bear Fc-IgG and C3 receptors, express immune response-associated (Ia) antigens and function as antigen-presenting cells and allogeneic stimulatory cells to primed T lymphocytes. The ontogeny of Langerhans cells has been a subject of considerable debate since their discovery. Although some studies suggest that Langerhans cells are of mesenchymal as opposed to neural or melanocytic origin, direct evidence for this has not been presented. In this study we demonstrate that, after 3 weeks, most of the Langerhans cells (LC) in parenteral skin which had been transplanted on to F1 hybrids were of recipient origin whereas keratinocytes remained of donor origin; this indicates that the LC are derived from a mobile pool of cells. Furthermore, in studies of skin from radiation-induced bone marrow chimaeric animals we found that, depending on the strain combination, up to 80% of the epidermal LC were derived from the bone marrow of the donor animals.     

Isolation and analysis of SSEA-4 positive cells derived from fetal marrow mesenchymal stem cells

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can be differentiatedinto bone, cartilage, adipocyte and some other tissue cells following induction and they are good seed cells in cell therapy and tissue engineering fields. Human fetal mesenchymal stem cells (fMSCs), de- …