The purification of mouse hematopoietic stem cells at sequential stages of maturation

Sean J Morrison1

  • 1Departments of Internal Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are rare, self-renewing progenitors that give rise to all lineages of blood cells. HSCs can be found in all hematopoietic organs, from the para-aortic mesoderm (1),(2) and yolk sac (3),(4) in fetuses to the bone marrow (reviewed in ref. 5), blood and spleens of adults.

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