What Are Mesenchymal Stem Cells?
Related News: Stem Cell DefinitionsFirst, the mesenchyme where Mesenchymal Stem Cellsare found, is the part of the embryonic mesoderm and consists of loosely packed, unspecialized cells set in a gelatinous ground substance.
Mesenchymal Stem Cells are unspecialized cells (stem cells) from which connective tissue, bone, cartilage, and the circulatory and lymphatic systems develop.
The mesenchymal cells are fusiform or stellate cell's found between the ectoderm and endoderm of young embryos.
The shape of the cell's in fixed material is indicative of the fact that in life they were moving from their place of origin to areas where they would become reaggregated and specialised.
Posted on February 21, 2005 04:59 PM