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  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: The present work is the first, in both animal and human, to show that tissues harvested from cadaveric ligaments up to 72 hours postmortem represent an available reservoir of specific stem cell populations.
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: Taking these observations into account, fundamental and clinical research studies are now required to investigate whether MSCs isolated from equine cadavers are suitable, abundant, and readily available to be used in future clinical applications. The present work is the first, in both animal and human, to show that tissues harvested from cadaveric ligaments up to 72 hours postmortem represent an available reservoir of specific stem cell populations. SLs were confirmed free of any damage following examination of the tissues both macroscopically and microscopically.