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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Toshihide Iwashita
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-611 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Nature 20031022 6961
Stem cells persist throughout life by self-renewing in numerous tissues including the central and peripheral nervous systems. This raises the issue of whether there is a conserved mechanism to effect self-renewing divisions. Deficiency in the polycomb family transcriptional repressor Bmi-1 leads to progressive postnatal growth retardation and neurological defects. Here we show that Bmi-1 is required for the self-renewal of stem cells in the peripheral and central nervous systems but not for thei ...[more]