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Topic 8

Stem cells todipotent pluripotent multi[potent and unipotnet

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What are stem cells Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that can continually divide and become speacialise
What is differntiation This is the process where stem cells become specialised
What are the different types of stem cells that can have different differentation abilities Totipotent pluripotent multipotent unipotent stem cells
What is toripotent These stem cells can divide and produce any type of body cell These cells occur only for a limited time in early mammalian embryos
What is pluripotent These stemm cells are found in embryos and can become any type of cell
How are they used in reasearch They are used with the prospect of treating human disorders They can regrow damaged cells in humans such as replace burnt skin cells and others
What are the issues with these cells They can continually divide to create tumors Ethically is it right to make a therapeutic clone of yourself to make an embryo to get stemm cells to cure a disease and then destroy the embryo
What are multipotent and unipotent cells These stem cells are found in mature mammals and can divide to form a limited number of different cell types
Whats the difference between these 2 stem cells Multipottent cells such as in bone marrow can differentiate into a limited amount of cells where as unipotent cells can only differentiate into one type of cell
Sources of stem cells in mammals The umbilical cord blood contain stem cells which are multipotent The placenta has stem cells that are multipotnet and can develop into a
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