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Detailed characterization of the human aorta‐gonad‐mesonephros region reveals morphological polarity resembling a hematopoietic stromal layer
1 Jun 1999
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The definitive long-term repopulating human hematopoietic stem cell, which seeds the adult blood system, was previously thought to derive from the extra-embryonic yolk sac. However, there is now considerable evidence that in both avian and murine systems, yolk sac hematopoietic cells are largely a transient, embryonic population and the definitive stem cell, in fact, derives from a distinct region within the...
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