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Stem cells are undifferentiated biological cells that can differentiate into specialized cells and can divide (through mitosis) to produce more stem cells. They are found in multicellular organisms. In mammals, there are two broad types of stem cells: embryonic stem cells, which are isolated from the inner cell mass of blastocysts, and adult stem ...
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Multipotent cell with mitotic potential that may serve as a precursor for many kinds of differentiated cells. [
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Unspecialized cells that renew themselves for long periods through cell division.
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an undifferentiated cell that can divide to produce some offspring cells that continue as stem cells and some cells that are destined to ... [18 related articles]
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A cell from which other types of cells develop. For example, blood cells develop from blood-forming stem cells.
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A relatively undifferentiated cell that can divide to produce more differentiated tissue cells, by following a genetic program of one-time gene expression that often leads to programmed cell death in the differentiated cells. Stem cells have two important characteristics that distinguish them from...
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1. Cell that gives rise to a lineage of cells. Particularly used to describe the most primitive cells in the bone marrow from which all the various types of blood cell are derived. ... 2. More commonly used of a cell that, upon division, produces dissimilar daughters, one replacing the original stem cell, the other differentiating further (e.g. Ste...
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a type of undifferentiated cell with the ability to divide and proliferate to form precursor cells that can differentiate into more specialized cells.
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Undifferentiated, primitive cells in the bone marrow that have the ability both to multiply and to d
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(1) Cell that gives rise to a lineage of cells. (2) More commonly used of a cell that, upon division, produces dissimilar daughters, one replacing the original stem cell, the other differentiating further (eg. stem cells in basal layers of skin, in haematopoietic tissue, and in meristems).
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A cell with the potential to form many of the different cell types found in the body.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. any precursor cell; 2. a cell with daughter cells that may differentiate into other cell types. 3. a cell capable of maintaining its own number while exporting progeny to one or more cell lineages.
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Stem cell: One of the human body's master cells, with the ability to grow into any one of the body's more than 200 cell types. All stem cells are unspecialized (undifferentiated) cells that are characteristically of the same family type (lineage). They retain the ability to divide throughout life and give rise to cells that can become highly specia...
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[
n] - an undifferentiated cell whose daughter cells may differentiate into other cell types (such as blood cells)
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noun an undifferentiated cell whose daughter cells may differentiate into other cell types (such as blood cells)
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Embryonic cell that can develop into different tissues. Stem cells are used in medical research but their use is ethically controversial as the donor embryo is destroyed. Stem cells differ from other types of cells in that they are unspecialized cells that can reproduce themselves for long periods of time using cell division, but are capable of cha...
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a cell that upon division replaces its own numbers and also gives rise to cells that differentiate further into one or more specialized types, as various B cells and T cells.
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