The phrase "altered stem" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to biology, botany, or linguistics, where a stem has been modified or changed in some way.
Example: "The altered stem of the plant exhibited unique growth patterns that were not present in the original species."
Alternatives: "modified stem" or "changed stem".
As humans and other organisms age or experience external insults such as radiation or smoking, the structure and function of tissues progressively degrade, resulting in altered stem cell niche microenvironments.
It is not yet known whether extension of sensory neuropathy to the BM may contribute to altered stem cell release.
Patches of genetically altered stem cell clones develop into individual fields that eventually mature into contiguous pastures of precancerous cells [ 28].
Prenatal TBT exposure is thus a maternal programming event that permanently altered stem cell fate leading to a reproducible adult phenotype.
We were unable to directly attribute any of these effects to loss of epidermal stem cells or altered stem cell proliferation.
Modestly altered stem cell pools in certain tissues of p53 mutant mice have been reported to be affected by age (Dumble, 2007).
In a second section, we will emphasize in the mammalian epigenetic alterations and how they may affect human longevity by altering stem cell function and/or somatic cell decline.
In mice, even mild maternal illness during early pregnancy can alter stem cell activity in the developing fetal brain.
Gene editing offers unprecedented opportunity to alter stem cell genomes to make lasting cures for monogenic disorders, including countless rare diseases.
Another, already used to eradicate tumors in mice, uses gene therapy to alter stem cells, which in turn make immune cells that combat the specific cancer – a treatment that would last a lifetime.
However, the therapy did not appear to alter stem cell methylation patterns, suggesting stem cells are protected from this type of therapy.
