Mesenchymal stem cell
Célula madre mesenquimatosa
- Date
- 1970 · confidence medium
- Place
- Moscow, Russia
- Credited to
- Alexander Friedenstein
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Multipotent bone-marrow stem cells able to differentiate into bone, cartilage, muscle or fat, identified by Alexander Friedenstein from plastic-adherent fibroblast colonies.
What it led to
- Bone and cartilage regeneration therapies
- Tissue-engineering research
- Clinical trials of mesenchymal cell therapy
- Study of the bone-marrow stem-cell niche