News Finding: CONCLUSIONS:
  
  Our findings raise the prospect that the tissues harvested from equine ligaments up to 72 hours of post-mortem represent an available reservoir of specific stem cells.
Paper Finding: This study demonstrated that a viable stem cell population can be isolated and expanded from equine cadaver ligaments up to 72 hours post-mortem.
News Context: Furthermore, TEM analysis confirmed the stemness of EC-MSCs and identified some cells with a typical neuronal morphology. CONCLUSIONS:
  
  Our findings raise the prospect that the tissues harvested from equine ligaments up to 72 hours of post-mortem represent an available reservoir of specific stem cells. EC-MSCs could be a promising alternative source for tissue engineering and stem cell therapy in equine medicine.
Paper Context: These observations are also in accordance with another study on ultrastructural changes of MSCs during neuronal induction . This study demonstrated that a viable stem cell population can be isolated and expanded from equine cadaver ligaments up to 72 hours post-mortem. Differentiation assays, flow cytometry, immunofluorescence and TEM analyses confirmed the stemness of these cells.