Hemoblasts in colonial tunicates: Are they stem cells or tissue-restricted progenitor cells?

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-76

  Kawamura, Kaz ^a   Sunanaga, Takeshi ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Germ line; Hemoblast; Progenitor cell; Soma; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM CELL; HEMOCYTOBLAST; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; REVIEW; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGENERATION; STEM CELLS; UROCHORDATA;

UROCHORDATA;

EID: 74549158288     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2009.01142.x     Document Type: Review

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