The Scientific World Journal (Jan 2002)

Embryonic Stem Cell Lines of Nonhuman Primates

  • Norio Nakatsuji,
  • Hirofumi Suemori

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2002.829
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2
pp. 1762 – 1773

Abstract

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Human embryonic stem (ES) cell lines have opened great potential and expectation for cell therapy and regenerative medicine. Monkey and human ES cell lines, which are very similar to each other, have been established from monkey blastocysts and surplus human blastocysts from fertility clinics.