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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Nerlov Lab
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-3935 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Sanjuan-Pla Alejandra A Macaulay Iain C IC Jensen Christina T CT Woll Petter S PS Luis Tiago C TC Mead Adam A Moore Susan S Carella Cintia C Matsuoka Sahoko S Bouriez Jones Tiphaine T Chowdhury Onima O Stenson Laura L Lutteropp Michael M Green Joanna C A JC Facchini Raffaella R Boukarabila Hanane H Grover Amit A Gambardella Adriana A Thongjuea Supat S Carrelha Joana J Tarrant Paul P Atkinson Deborah D Clark Sally-Ann SA Nerlov Claus C Jacobsen Sten Eirik W SE
Nature 20130811 7470
The blood system is maintained by a small pool of haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), which are required and sufficient for replenishing all human blood cell lineages at millions of cells per second throughout life. Megakaryocytes in the bone marrow are responsible for the continuous production of platelets in the blood, crucial for preventing bleeding--a common and life-threatening side effect of many cancer therapies--and major efforts are focused at identifying the most suitable cellular and mo ...[more]