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Subject: Are there any pluripotent stem cells found in Umbilical Cord Blood?

Date: Thu Mar 1 20:48:13 2001
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Are there any pluripotent stem cells found in Umbilical Cord Blood (UCB)?  If 
not, can the Hematopoietic stem cells(HSC)or other stem cells found in the UCB 
be induced to become muscle cells?  
2) Further, what happens to stem cells that are intravenously injected into a 
body?  If they are pluripotent, would they wander about in the body until they 
eventually attach to something and then change into that part of the body or 
would they all become blood cells? 
3) And, if stem cells that have been "processed" to become muscle cells are 
released intravenously would they find there way to the muscles and attach 
thereto or be attacked by our immune response (assuming an autologous induction 
of stem cells)? 
4) If the stem cells had been imprinted to become muscle cells yet not fully 
transformed and then intravenously injected, would those cells offer a better 
chance at finding their way to the proper location (the muscles)?  

thank you


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