Stem Cell Reports Report Low/Negative Expression of PDGFR-a Identifies the Candidate Primary Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Adult Human Bone Marrow

Hongzhe Li,1 Roshanak Ghazanfari,1 Dimitra Zacharaki,1 Nicholas Ditzel,2 Joan Isern,3 Marja Ekblom,1,6 Simón Méndez-Ferrer,3 Moustapha Kassem,2,4,5 and Stefan Scheding1,6,* 1Lund Stem Cell Center, Lund University, 22184 Lund, Sweden 2Department of Endocrinology, University of Southern Denmark, Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory (KMEB), Odense 5000, Denmark 3Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, Madrid 28029, Spain 4Stem Cell Unit, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh 11461, Saudi Arabia 5Danish Stem Cell Center (DanStem), Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark 6Department of Hematology, Skåne University Hospital Lund, 22184 Lund, Sweden *Correspondence: [email protected] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stemcr.2014.09.018 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).