Figure 4. Myometrial stem cells analyses.

Figure 4Myometrial stem cells analyses.

Panel A, Localization of BrdU label-retaining cells adjacent to a known stem cell marker c-Kit (see inset) after a three-month chase in a mouse uterus, reprinted with permission from Szotek et al. (2007). Panels B and C, Xenotransplantation of human myometrial cells into mouse uteri after side population (SP) flow cytometry. SP cells colocalize with human vimentin (Panel B) but non-SP cells do not (Panel C; reprinted with permission from Ono et al. (2007)). ML, myometrium; myoSP, myometrial side population cells; myoMP, myometrial non-SP cells.

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