BioConcepts

embryonic stem cellembryonale Stammzelle (ger.)

• Cells obtained from an embryo in the blastula phase, when they are still only a few days old. Because they have only begun to differentiate, these cells have the capability of developing into any cell in the human body, a fact which makes them potentially important in medicine. (The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy)
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  1904

  embryonale Stammzelle

  Türk, W. (1904). Vorlesungen über klinische Hämatologie, Bd. 1: 382.

  1932

  embryonic (stem) cell

  Shumway, W. (1932). The recapitulation theory. Quart. Rev. Biol. 7, 93-99: 97.

  1966

  embryonic stem cells

  Cheng, T.C. (1966). The coracidium of the cestode Tylocephalum and the migration and fate of this parasite in the American oyster, Crassostrea virginica. Trans. Amer. Microscop. Soc. 85, 246-255: 253; in plural: Ogren, R.E. (1968). The basic cellular pattern for undifferentiated oncospheres of Hymenolepis diminuta. Trans. Amer. Microscop. Soc. 87, 448-463: 448.