前列腺干细胞研究进展

Research Progress on Prostate Stem Cells

干细胞是一种具有自我复制能力的多潜能细胞,具备多向分化潜能、自我更新、高度增殖的特性,具备再生各类人体器官以及人体的潜在能力,被医学界戏称为"全能细胞"。目前逐渐发现它在许多疾病的发生和治疗中发挥重大作用。近年研究发现前列腺内一样地存在着前列腺干细胞,在特定的环境中可以分化发育为前列腺组织,并与前列腺某些疾病有关。本文就有关前列腺干细胞相关文献研究进行综述。

Stem cells are a kind of pluripotent cells which can self-replicate, with characteristics of multilineage differentiation potential, self-renewal, and highly proliferation; stem cells with the potential function that regeneration of vatious tissues and organs and the body＇s under certain conditions, so they gain the ninckname ＂totipotent cell＂ by the medical field. Now we gradually found that they had played an important role in the occurrence and treatment of many diseases. Prostate stem cells have been found in prostate in recent years, they can be for prostate tissue differentiation development under certain conditions, and have something to do with some prostatic diseases. This review focuses on the latest progress in the field of prostate stem cells.