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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Main Authors: David Dingli, Jorge M Pacheco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1762381?pdf=render