[Mesenchymal stem cells applied in therapy for acute radiation injury]
Ming Li1, Li-Sheng Wang, Qing-Liang Luo
1Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing 100850, China.
Zhongguo Shi Yan Xue Ye Xue Za Zhi
|August 22, 2007
Abstract:
Mesenchymal stem cells are a kind of non-hematopoietic adult stem cells with selfrenewal and multilineage differentiation potential, which have special biological characteristics, such as secreting hematopoietic growth factors, reconstructing hematopoietic microenvironment, low immunogenicity, and can be transfected and expressed by exogenous gene. This article summarizes the biological characteristics of MSCs and their models of application to acute radiation disease in animals.
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