title: Epicardial origin of cardiac CFU-Fs.
abstract: The epicardium has been recognized as a source of cardiovascular progenitors during embryogenesis and postnatal life. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Chong et al. (2011) identify cardiac CFU-Fs as cardiac-resident cells of epicardial origin with broad multilineage differentiation potential.
authors.affiliation: National Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin Graduate School, Madison, WI 53715, USA. islukvin@wisc.edu
authors.forename: Igor I
authors.initials: II
authors.lastname: Slukvin