Overexpression of HOXB4 in hematopoietic cells causes the selective expansion of more primitive populations in vitro and in vivo

Genes and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 14, 1995, Pages 1753-1765

  Sauvageau, Guy ^a   Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur ^a   Eaves, Connie J ^a   Lawrence, H Jeffrey ^b   Largman, Cory ^b   Lansdorp, Peter M ^a   Humphries, R Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bone marrow transplantation; Homeo box genes; retroviral gene transfer

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CLONING VECTOR; CLONOGENESIS; COLONY FORMING UNIT S; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HOMEOBOX; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0029091845     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.9.14.1753     Document Type: Article

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