[Bone and Stem Cells. Immune cell regulation by the bone marrow niche]
Asuka Terashima1, Hiroshi Takayanagi
1Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
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Adult hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are maintained in the bone marrow and give rise to all blood cell types. The maintenance and the differentiation of blood cells including immune cells are essential for host defense and oxygen delivery. HSCs are maintained in microenvironments called stem cell niches, which consists of various cell types in bone marrow. Recently, new visualization technologies and assay systems brought advances in studies on the stem cell niche. In addition, several reports demonstrated that osteoblasts and osteocytes regulate not only HSC homeostasis but also immune cell differentiation, suggesting a close relationship between bone cells and HSCs.
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