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Stem Cells

"Stem Cells" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Relatively undifferentiated cells that retain the ability to divide and proliferate throughout postnatal life to provide progenitor cells that can differentiate into specialized cells.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Stem Cells" by people in this website by year, and whether "Stem Cells" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 278 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 18 publications in 2005
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