TY - BOOK AU - Dina Elsaid Abdelsalam Ahmed AU - Hala Gabr Metwally , AU - Raft Mohammed Abdelfatah , AU - Somaia Abdelrahman Mousa , TI - Comparison between progenitor subsets and functional properties of bone marrow and leukapheresis derived mesenchmal stem cells / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Dina Elsaid Abdelsalam Ahmed , KW - Bone marrow KW - Mesenchymal stem cells KW - Stem cells N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology; Issued also as CD N2 - Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs ) have high proliferative and differentiation potential in addition to their plasticity that makes them promising candidates for cell therapeutic applications . Bone marrow (BM ) harvest is still the main source of MSCs in spite of being traumatic and painful . Clinical indications for peripheral blood (PB ) - derived MSCs, which can be easily and safely harvested are rapidly increasing ER -