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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-RENAL PHYSIOLOGY
卷 294, 期 6, 页码 F1415-F1421出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00533.2007
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adult stem cells; epithelium; rats
Adult tissue stem cells replicate infrequently, retaining DNA nucleotide label BrdU) for much longer periods than mature, dividing cells in which the label is diluted during a chase period. Those labelretaining cells (LRCs) have been identified as the tissue stem cells in skin, cornea, intestine, and prostate. However, in the urinary tract uroepithelial stem cells have not yet been identified. In this study, BrdU administration identified urothelial LRCs in the rat bladder with 9% of the epithelial basal cells retaining BrdU label 1 yr after its administration. Markers for stem cells in other tissues, Bcl, p63, cytokeratin 14, and beta 1 integrin, were immunolocalized in the basal bladder epithelium in or near urothelial LRCs, but not uniquely limited to these cells. Flow cytometry demonstrated that urothelial LRCs were small, had low granularity, and were uniquely beta 4 integrin bright. Urothelium from long-term labeled bladders was cultured and LRCs were found to be significantly more clonogenic and proliferative, characteristics of stem cells, than unlabeled urothelial cells. Thus, this work demonstrates that LRCs in the bladder localize to the basal layer, are small, low granularity, uniquely beta 4 integrin rich, slowly cycling and demonstrate superior clonogenic and proliferative ability compared with unlabeled epithelial cells. We propose that LRCs represent putative urothelial stem cells.
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