title: A niche in a dish: pericytes support HSC.
abstract: In this issue of Blood, Corselli et al purify CD1461 pericytes from human adipose or fetal bone marrow and demonstrate that these cells are capable of supporting the self-renewal and proliferation of transplantable human cord blood hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs).
authors.affiliation: Mater Research.
authors.forename: Jean-Pierre
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Levesque
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000502:physiology*; D051929:CD146 Antigen / Q000378:metabolism*; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D051929:CD146 Antigen