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Bone marrow is the central portion of bone responsible for the daily production of roughly 500 billion red blood cells. The bone marrow substance is a very spongy tissue inside the human bone. Typically the adult stem cells are harvested from bone marrow aspirations (stem cell extractions ) are from areas such as the hip and/or thigh bone. Video about …
Multipotent stem cells are specific variant of stem cells that has the ability to differentiate or transform into several other variants of cells belonging to a similar family. For instance, the hematopoietic stem cells. These may develop into different variants of blood cells, forming either platelets or RBCs, but they are not capable of differentiating into neural cells.
The Polar body refers to the resultant structure that an egg cell (oogonium) produces as it undergoes meiosis. During the first stage of meiosis, the egg cell evenly divides the chromosomes between the resultant two cells. However, the cytoplasm is divided unevenly. One of the cells retains majority of the cytoplasm, leaving the other cell with a very small amount …
Somatic stem cells are basically adult stem cells that are found in both children and adult humans. The regeneration center of Thailand uses adult stem cells that are isolated from a tissue samples from cord blood,placenta,adipose (fat) or dental pulp. Embryonic vs Somatic Stem Cells (Adult)
Tetraploid complementation assays are used to examine the potency of a particular stem cell. Scientific studies in medical journals performed on chimeras (the mixture of cells of two distinct animals) revealed that the fusion of two embryos with eight cells resulted into cells containing four sets of chromosomes referred to as tetraploid cells, which are predisposed to developing into an …
Zygotes are single cell that is generated after the egg has been fertilized by the sperm. The zygote then merges chromosomes from both of the gametes. After which, several divisions will take place for the production of embryonic cells at roughly four days after fertilization. The zygote stage lasts for only about 4 days in total. On and around the 5th …
