title: Same function, different origins: multipotent stromal precursors in lymphoid tissues.
abstract: The evolutionary and lineage relationships between various stromal cell types that support the immune system are not well understood. Recently, in Immunity, Castagnaro et al. (2013) identified multipotent mesenchymal precursors that specifically give rise to stromal cell types in the spleen, but not other lymphoid tissue, and support injury-induced regeneration.
authors: Department of Developmental Immunology, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Stuebeweg 51, 79108 Freiburg, Germany. boehm@immunbio.mpg.de
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