Allometric scaling of the active hematopoietic stem cell pool across mammals.
BACKGROUND: Many biological processes are characterized by allometric relations of the type Y = Y(0)M(b) between an observable Y and body mass M, which pervade at multiple levels of organization. In what regards the hematopoietic stem cell pool, there is experimental evidence that the size of the he...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2006-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1762381?pdf=render |