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Birth of the blood cell

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Could it be that mouse fetal liver cells and adult bone-marrow blood cells originate from a subset of cells that line the blood vessels in the embryo? Several lines of evidence suggest that this is indeed the case.

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Figure 1: Relationship between endothelial cells and blood cells.

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  1. Momoko Yoshimoto and Mervin C. Yoder are in the Herman B. Wells Center for Pediatrics Research, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA. myoder@iupui.edu ,

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