PUBLICATION
Stem cell safe harbor: the hematopoietic stem cell niche in zebrafish
- Authors
- Wattrus, S.J., Zon, L.I.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-181115-4
- Date
- 2018
- Source
- Blood advances 2: 3063-3069 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Zon, Leonard I.
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Cell Differentiation
- Chemokines, CXC/metabolism
- Endothelial Cells/cytology
- Endothelial Cells/metabolism
- Hematopoiesis
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells/cytology*
- Macrophages/cytology
- Macrophages/metabolism
- Mice
- Stem Cell Niche*
- Zebrafish/growth & development*
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- PubMed
- 30425071 Full text @ Blood Adv
Citation
Wattrus, S.J., Zon, L.I. (2018) Stem cell safe harbor: the hematopoietic stem cell niche in zebrafish. Blood advances. 2:3063-3069.
Abstract
Each stem cell resides in a highly specialized anatomic location known as the niche that protects and regulates stem cell function. The importance of the niche in hematopoiesis has long been appreciated in transplantation, but without methods to observe activity in vivo, the components and mechanisms of the hematopoietic niche have remained incompletely understood. Zebrafish have emerged over the past few decades as an answer to this. Use of zebrafish to study the hematopoietic niche has enabled discovery of novel cell-cell interactions, as well as chemical and genetic regulators of hematopoietic stem cells. Mastery of niche components may improve therapeutic efforts to direct differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells from pluripotent cells, sustain stem cells in culture, or improve stem cell transplant.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping