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SUBMITTER: Chow A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3983996 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chow Andrew A Huggins Matthew M Ahmed Jalal J Hashimoto Daigo D Lucas Daniel D Kunisaki Yuya Y Pinho Sandra S Leboeuf Marylene M Noizat Clara C van Rooijen Nico N Tanaka Masato M Zhao Zhizhuang Joe ZJ Bergman Aviv A Merad Miriam M Frenette Paul S PS
Nature medicine 20130317 4
A role for macrophages in erythropoiesis was suggested several decades ago when erythroblastic islands in the bone marrow, composed of a central macrophage surrounded by developing erythroblasts, were described. However, the in vivo role of macrophages in erythropoiesis under homeostatic conditions or in disease remains unclear. We found that specific depletion of CD169(+) macrophages markedly reduced the number of erythroblasts in the bone marrow but did not result in overt anemia under homeost ...[more]