Stem Cell Predictive Hemotoxicology
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Stem cells, those elusive entities that have the capacity for producing, maintaining and reconstituting the integrity of a biological system, also demonstrate the potential to predict partial or life-threatening damage in response to drugs, environmental compounds and other agents. It is ironic however, that in the animal or human, prior to the manifestation of such potential biological damage most, if not all of the stem cells might have been eradicated. To predict possible damage, surrogate in vitro stem cell assays have been developed that utilize specific properties and characteristics that divulge, through a measured response, how the system will react to different agents.
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