A brief history of the development of stromal stem cells (stem cells of the skeleton)

James T. Triffitt

Table 1 Some examples of the nomenclature for the stromal cell preparations of bone marrow used by the named scientific investigators over many years.

Author Nomenclature Arthur W. Ham Osteogenic cells Numerous authors Connective tissue stem cells Alexander J. Friedenstein Marrow stromal cells Maureen E. Owen Stromal stem cells James T. Triffitt Stromal fibroblastic cells Arnold I. Caplan Mesenchymal stem cells or medicinal signalling cells (MSCs) Paul C. Schiller Marrow isolated adult multilineage inducible cells (MIAMI cells) Catherine M. Verfaillie Multipotent adult progenitor cells (MAPCs) Pamela G. Robey Skeletal stem cells