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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 17.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2011 Apr 26;123(16):1771–1779. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.858019

Table 1.

Selected examples of somatic adult stem cell populations that reside in adult, mammalian tissues.

Adult stem cell population Niche (Tissue) Derivatives Reference
Bronchioalveolar Stem Cells Lung clara- and AT2-like cells 18–19
Bulge stem cells Hair Follicle hair follicles, sebaceous glands, and epidermis 20–21
Epithelial stem cells Lining of Digestive Tract villus columnar, mucous, entero-endocrine, and paneth cells 22–23
Hematopoietic stem cells Bone Marrow lymphoid (B cell, T cell, natural killer cell, and lymphoid dendritic cell lineage) and myeloid (all other lineages) blood cells 24–25
Neural stem cells Ependymal Cell Layer neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes 26–27
Oval cells Liver hepatocytes and biliary epithelium 4–6
Satellite cell Skeletal muscle skeletal muscle 7, 28–29