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The stem cell continuum

Considerations on the heterogeneity and plasticity of marrow stem cells

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Traditional models of hematopoiesis have been hierarchical. Recent evidence showing that marrow stem cells are a cycling population and that the hematopoietic phenotype of these cells reversibly changes with cycle transit have suggested a continuum model of stem cell regulators. Studies on marrow cell conversion to lung cells have extended this continuum to cycle-related differentiation into nonhematopoietic stem cells. We postulate that stem cells transiting cell cycle continually change their chromatin structure, thus providing different windows of transcriptional opportunity and a continually changing phenotype. Final outcomes with this continuum model would be determined by the specific chromatin state of the cell and the presence of specific differentiation inducers.

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Quesenberry, P.J., Dooner, G., Dooner, M. et al. The stem cell continuum. Stem Cell Rev 1, 29–36 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1385/SCR:1:1:029

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