unipotent
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of unipotent
Example Sentences
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In a classical view of hematopoiesis, the various blood cell lineages arise via a hierarchical scheme starting with multipotent stem cells that become increasingly restricted in their differentiation potential through oligopotent and then unipotent progenitors.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 7, 2016
Instead, only two progenitor classes predominate, multipotent and unipotent, with Er-Mk lineages emerging from multipotent cells.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 7, 2016
In the human model, blood differentiation initiates at the level of multipotent stem cells and passes through a series of increasingly lineage-restricted oligopotent and, finally, unipotent progenitor intermediates.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 7, 2016
Oligopotent progenitors were only a negligible component of the human blood hierarchy in BM, leading to the inference that multipotent cells differentiate into unipotent cells directly by adulthood.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 7, 2016
In contrast, a unipotent cell is fully specialized and can only reproduce to generate more of its own specific cell type.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
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