Tissue-specific adult stem cells in the human lung (original) (raw)

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We read with interest the Community Corner that appeared in Nature Medicine1 on the topic of our recent work on human lung stem cells (hLSCs)2. In their comments, Brigid Hogan and Barry Stripp have made a number of rather strong remarks concerning the actual validity of our results, some of which clearly lack acceptable scientific objectivity and border on personal attacks. Putting aside the healthy skepticism that confronts new findings, we are at a loss to explain the negative tone with which these comments were written.

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Figure 1: Clonal hLSCs and differentiated progeny in vivo.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Piero Anversa, Jan Kajstura & Annarosa Leri
  2. Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Piero Anversa, Jan Kajstura, Annarosa Leri & Joseph Loscalzo

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  1. Piero Anversa
  2. Jan Kajstura
  3. Annarosa Leri
  4. Joseph Loscalzo

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P.A. is a member of Autologous LLC, and a patent application has been filed by Partners HealthCare for this class of human lung stem cells.

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Anversa, P., Kajstura, J., Leri, A. et al. Tissue-specific adult stem cells in the human lung.Nat Med 17, 1038–1039 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.2463

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