16/03/2012

The chapter on stem cells of the Side Population (SP) written by Dr. Jordi Petriz, member of the research unit in biomedicine and translational and pediatrics oncology at Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), in the prestigious compendium of citomety Current Protocols in Cytometry (CPC, Ed. Wiley&Sons) it is the fifth work most consulted online after five years.CPC is a publication affiliated to the International Society of Analytical Cytology (ISAC) and accumulates more than 250 contributions (independent chapters) of different specialists. In absence of phenotipic markers specific of stem cells, Dr. Petriz's chaper, written in 2007, has been of great interest, as the Side Population has turned into a key compartment inside the stem cells, specially for their identification, isolation and later characterization. It is specially significant to emphasize that the members of the scientific community that studies the SP are a minority with relation to other disciplines, a fact that helps to notice the high impact of this work.