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Embryonic hematopoiesis.
Blood cells, molecules & diseases - 1 Dec 2013
Golub Rachel, Cumano Ana
Abstract excerpt
Blood cells are continually produced from a pool of progenitors that derive from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). In vertebrates, the hematopoietic system develops from two distinct waves or generation of precursors. The first wave occurs in the yolk sac, in mammals or equivalent embryonic structure, and produces nucleated primitive erythrocytes that provide the embryo with the first oxygen transporter and are,...
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