A lineage of diploid platelet-forming cells precedes polyploid megakaryocyte formation in the mouse embryo
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2014
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Potts, K.S.
Sargeant, T.J.
Markham, J.F.
Shi, W.
Biben, C.
Josefsson, E.C.
Whitehead, L.W.
Rogers, K.L.
Liakhovitskaia, A.
Smyth, G.K.
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Blood, 2014; 124(17):2725-2729
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Kathryn S. Potts, Tobias J. Sargeant, John F. Markham, Wei Shi, Christine Biben ... Benjamin T. Kile ... et al.
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In this study, we test the assumption that the hematopoietic progenitor/colony-forming cells of the embryonic yolk sac (YS), which are endowed with megakaryocytic potential, differentiate into the first platelet-forming cells in vivo. We demonstrate that from embryonic day (E) 8.5 all megakaryocyte (MK) colony-forming cells belong to the conventional hematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) compartment. Although these cells are indeed capable of generating polyploid MKs, they are not the source of the first platelet-forming cells. We show that proplatelet formation first occurs in a unique and previously unrecognized lineage of diploid platelet-forming cells, which develop within the YS in parallel to HPCs but can be specified in the E8.5 Runx1-null embryo despite the absence of the progenitor cell lineage.
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© 2014 by The American Society of Hematology.