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Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are specified and generated during the embryonic development and have remarkable potential to replenish the full set of blood cell lineages. Researchers have long been interested in clarifying the molecular events involved in HSC specification. Many studies have reported the development of methods for generating functional hematopoietic cells from pluripotent stem cells (PSCs-embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)) for decades. However, the generation of HSCs with robust long-term repopulation potential remains a swingeing challenge, of which a major factor contributing to this failure is the difficulty to define the intraembryonic signals related to the specification of HSCs. Since HSCs directly derive from hemogenic endothelium, in this review, we summarize both in vivo and in vitro studies on conserved signaling pathways that control the specification of HSCs from hemogenic endothelial cells.
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Long, Y., Huang, H. On signaling pathways: hematopoietic stem cell specification from hemogenic endothelium. Sci. China Life Sci. 58, 1256–1261 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-015-4976-3
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