Haematopoietic stem cells retain long-term repopulating activity and multipotency in the absence of stem-cell leukaemia SCL/tal-1 gene

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6922, 2003, Pages 547-551

  Mikkola, Hanna K A ^a   Klintman, Jenny ^a   Yang, Haidi ^a   Hock, Hanno ^a   Schlaeger, Thorsten M ^a   Fujiwara, Yuko ^a   Orkin, Stuart H ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CELLS;

BLOOD CELL PRODUCTION;

GENES;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BIOLOGY; BLOOD; GENE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ERYTHROID CELL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; LYMPHOID CELL; MEGAKARYOCYTE; MESODERM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; STEM CELL LEUKEMIA GENE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MYELOPOIESIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037472895     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01345     Document Type: Article

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