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SUBMITTER: Lin P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3980027 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lin Paul P Correa Diego D Kean Thomas J TJ Awadallah Amad A Dennis James E JE Caplan Arnold I AI
Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy 20130925 1
It has been hypothesized that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) home to sites of injury. Nevertheless, efficient delivery of MSCs to target organs and description of their ultimate fate remain major challenges. We provide evidence that intra-arterially (IA) injected MSCs selectively engraft from the circulation as perivascular cells in the bone marrow (BM) after a localized radiation injury. Luciferase-expressing MSCs, derived from a conditionally immortalized clone (BMC-9) representing a pure popul ...[more]