Role of N-cadherin in the regulation of hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow niche

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1266, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 72-77

  Arai, Fumio ^a   Hosokawa, Kentaro ^a   Toyama, Hirofumi ^a   Matsumoto, Yoshiko ^a   Suda, Toshio ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hematopoietic stem cells; N cadherin; Niche; Osteoblasts

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED LEUKOCYTE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL PROTECTION; ENGRAFTMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STEM CELL NICHE; STRESS;

EID: 84865362563     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06576.x     Document Type: Article

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