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- adjective biochemistry Having a
function in abiological environment
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Ontogeny of cTECs remains undefined, although evidence from fetal mice suggests that either bipotent TEC progenitors or cTEC progenitors are found within the K5K8DP TEC subset.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Masako Osada et al. 2010
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Hydra Cnox2 is expressed in bipotent neuronal progenitors giving rise to nematocytes and apical neurons expression seems to be restricted to neuronal populations.
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A prevailing view is that breast epithelial stem cells give rise to bipotent basal/luminal progenitors, which then give rise to basal and luminal restricted progenitors, and from there to differentiated basal/myoepithelial and luminal epithelial cells
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jessica Kao et al. 2009
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+/CD24 −/low and MUC −/CALLA+ phenotypes characteristic of stem or bipotent progenitor cells, as well as ITGB3 (CD61), also recently characterized as a cancer stem cell marker in MMTV-wnt-1 induced murine breast cancer
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jessica Kao et al. 2009
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Eaves CJ, Zandieh I, Emerman JT (2001) Characterization of bipotent mammary epithelial progenitor cells in normal adult human breast tissue.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jessica Kao et al. 2009
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Panel B shows the segregation of β-tubulinIII and GFAP in a bipotent neuroglial progenitor.
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ID2 is also essential for NK lineage commitment from bipotent progenitors of both T and NK cells
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Santosh Nanda et al. 2008
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