Electron microscopy reveals the presence of viruses in mouse embryonic fibroblasts but neither in human embryonic fibroblasts nor in human mesenchymal cells used for hesc maintenance toward an implementation of microbiological quality assurance program in stem cell banks

Cloning and Stem Cells

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-73

  Cobo, Fernando ^a   Navarro, José María ^b   Herrera, Ma Inmaculada ^c   Vivo, Amparo ^c   Porcel, David ^d   Hernández, Concepción ^d   Jurado, Manuel ^b   García Castro, Javier ^a   Menendez, Pablo ^a,e  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^e Andalusiam Stem Cell Bank ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MESENCHYME CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; RETROVIRUS; STEM CELL BANK; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; QUALITY CONTROL; TISSUE BANKS;

MURINAE; RETROVIRIDAE;

EID: 40349091600     PISSN: 15362302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/clo.2007.0020     Document Type: Article

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