New Method For Bone-marrow-derived Liver Stem Cells Isolation And Proliferation, Sun Yat-sen University Study

EurekAlert! -- Great interest has been aroused in the identification and isolation of liver stem cells from bone marrow cells. Several subsets of bone marrow cells have been found to have the potential to differentiate into hepatocytes, however, sorting based on immunological methods is difficult because of the complicated surface markers of the stem cells; furthermore, no report of successful passage has been published.