Proliferation and osteogenic differentiation of amniotic fluid-derived stem cells

• Main Authors: Muduli, Saradaprasan, Lee, Henry Hsin-Chung, Yang, Jia-Sin, Chen, Ting-Yeh, Higuchi, Akon, Subbiah, Suresh Kumar, Alarfaj, Abdullah A., Murugan, A. Munusamy, Benelli, Giovanni, Murugan, Kadarkarai, Liu, Ching-Yuan, Chen, Yi-Fan, Chang, Yung, Moorthy, Brintha, Wang, Han-Chow, Hsu, Shih-Tien, Ling, Qing-Dong
• Format: Article
• Published: Royal Society of Chemistry 2017
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/62872/; https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/tb/c7tb01152k
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Human amniotic fluid-derived stem cells (hAFCs) are pluripotent fetal cells capable of differentiating into multiple lineages, including cell types of each of the three embryonic germ layers. Proper differentiation and maintenance of pluripotency, the defining characteristics of stem cells, are regu...