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SUBMITTER: Trowbridge JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1599924 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Trowbridge Jennifer J JJ Scott Matthew P MP Bhatia Mickie M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060912 38
The signals that control the regenerative ability of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in response to damage are unknown. Here, we demonstrate that downstream activation of the Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway induces cycling and expansion of primitive bone marrow hematopoietic cells under homeostatic conditions and during acute regeneration. However, this effect is at the expense of HSC function, because continued Hh activation during regeneration represses expression of specific cell cycle regula ...[more]