Article
Fetal liver stroma consists of cells in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition.
Blood - 15 Apr 2003
Chagraoui Jalila, Lepage-Noll Adeline, Anjo Aurora, Uzan Georges, Charbord Pierre
Abstract excerpt
Liver becomes the predominant site of hematopoiesis by 11.5 dpc (days after coitus) in the mouse and 15 gestational weeks in humans and stays so until the end of gestation. The reason the liver is the major hematopoietic site during fetal life is not clear. In this work, we tried to define which of the fetal liver microenvironmental cell populations would be associated with the development of hematopoiesis and...
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