A mother cell is a cell that has the ability to self-renew through mitotic divisions orcontinue the differentiation pathway for which you are scheduled and, therefore, produce one or more cells of mature tissues, functional and fully differentiated according to their degree of multipotentiality.
These cells have the ability to divide without losing their properties and can differentiate into other cells.
2.2. ¿Son iguales todas las células madres?
There are different types of mother cells:
*Totipotent mother cells: can grow and form a complete organism, both embryoniccomponents (for example, the three germ layers, the germ line and tissues that give rise to yolk sac) and the extraembryonic (such as the placenta). That is, can form all cell types.
*Pluripotent mother cells: can not form a complete organism, but any other cell type for the three embryonic lineages (endoderm, ectoderm and mesoderm), and thegerminal and yolk sac. It can, therefore, form cell lineages.
*Multipotent mother cells: are those cells can only generate the same layer of embryonic origin or ancestry (eg, a stem cell bone marrow mesenchymal, having mesodermalnature, give rise to cells of this layer as myocytes, adipocytes, or osteocytes , etc.).
*Unipotent mother cells: can form only a particular cell type.
2.3. ¿Dónde se pueden obtener?
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2.4. ¿Es posible su utilización terapéutica?
Yes, it is a new disciplinary that applies the principles of engineering and life sciences to obtain biological substitutes to restore, maintain or improve tissue function.
2.5. ¿Qué es un clon?
A clone is a group of genetically identical individuals descended from a singleindividual by asexual reproduction mechanism.
2.6. ¿Puedes clonar a tu mascota?
Yes, getting his genetic data and taking it to a lab that is willing to clone by asexual production mechanisms.
2.7. ¿Qué problema plantea la clonación de seres humanos?
Ethical problems that are produced from a moral point of view.
2.8. ¿Por qué se conservan los cordones umbilicales?
Because blood contains stem cells that leads can be used in patients with congenital diseases.
This blood enables us to improve defenses against disease.
