Bone-marrow haematopoietic-stem-cell niches

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 93-106

  Wilson, Anne ^a   Trumpp, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAXIN 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; OSTEOPONTIN; PARATHYROID HORMONE RELATED PROTEIN RECEPTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; VASCULOTROPIN; WNT PROTEIN;

CELL ACTIVITY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFER; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLONAL VARIATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MICROENVIRONMENT; MICROVASCULATURE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOCLAST; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL MOBILIZATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL;

EID: 33644827383     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1779     Document Type: Review

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