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Evidence that these MSCs are pluripotent, rather than being a mixture of committed progenitor cells each with a restricted potential, includes their rapid proliferation in culture, a characteristic morphology, the presence of typical marker proteins, and their consistent differentiation into various mesenchymal lineages.
This agrees with the genetic and cell biological evidence implicating an α-proteobacterium as progenitor of the mitochondrion [ 25 ] and supports the hypothesis that these nine eukaryotic proteins owe their origin to that symbiotic event [ 2 ] . However, the remaining 32 proteins do not show this pattern but instead identify other species or groups of eubacteria as closest relative.
Isolated human neural progenitors spontaneously aggregate in these conditions to produce a cell cluster called a NS, and 85%–90% of NS cells produce the intermediary filament Nestin (Figures 1 and 2), a putative marker of neural stem and progenitor cells [19].
Further experimentation may elucidate the basis for these differences, revealing the extent of neural progenitor cell development toward an endocrine cell fate.
Primordial germs cells originate from a small number of progenitor cells that arise in very early development.