New Insights on Properties and Spatial Distributions of Skeletal Stem Cells

Table 1

Comparison of MSCs and SSCs.

	MSCs	SSCs
Location	Ubiquitously	Skeleton
Skeletal lineage restricted	No	Yes
Homogeneity	Low	High
Stability	Low	High
Multilineage differentiation in vivo	Unpredictable	Yes
Ectopic bone formation	Unpredictable	Yes