The hare and the tortoise: An embryonic haematopoietic race

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 593-604

  Godin, Isabelle ^a   Cumano, Ana ^b  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; DNA; GENE PRODUCT; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL CELL; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROID CELL; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FETUS; FETUS LIVER; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEGAKARYOCYTE; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; ANIMAL; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE THERAPY; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036672919     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri857     Document Type: Review

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