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SUBMITTER: Wattrus SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9524573 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20220922 6613
Tissue-specific stem cells persist for a lifetime and can differentiate to maintain homeostasis or transform to initiate cancer. Despite their importance, there are no described quality assurance mechanisms for newly formed stem cells. We observed intimate and specific interactions between macrophages and nascent blood stem cells in zebrafish embryos. Macrophage interactions frequently led to either removal of cytoplasmic material and stem cell division or complete engulfment and stem cell death ...[more]