title: Lineage commitment: cytokines instruct, at last!
abstract: Instructive and permissive models of commitment have been proposed for hematopoietic cytokines. In recent issues of Science and Cell, Rieger et al. (2009) and Sarrazin et al. (2009) together show that cytokines can instruct lineage choice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. rstanley@aecom.yu.edu
authors.forename: E Richard
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Stanley
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D019070:Cell Lineage; D016207:Cytokines / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D051258:MafB Transcription Factor / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008954:Models, Biological; D039902:Multipotent Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D016207:Cytokines; D051258:MafB Transcription Factor