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Analysis of HSC activity and compensatory Hox gene expression profile in Hoxb cluster mutant fetal liver cells.
Blood - 1 Jul 2006
Bijl Janet, Thompson Alexander, Ramirez-Solis Ramiro, Krosl Jana, Grier David G, Lawrence H Jeffrey, Sauvageau Guy
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Overexpression of Hoxb4 in bone marrow cells promotes expansion of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) populations in vivo and in vitro, indicating that this homeoprotein can activate the genetic program that determines self-renewal. However, this function cannot be solely attributed to Hoxb4 because Hoxb4(-/-) mice are viable and have an apparently normal HSC number. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction analysis...
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