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Stem Cells Found in Adult Peripheral Nervous System.
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Byline: University of Michigan Health System
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the University of Michigan Medical School have found neural crest stem cells - primitive cells that generate the peripheral nervous system - in the gut of adult laboratory rats. The U-M discovery upsets the widely held belief that neural crest stem cells disappear in animals before birth, once the peripheral nervous system develops.
U-M scientists reported their research results in two papers published in the Aug.15 issue of Neuron.
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