Term Details for "stem cell population maintenance" (GO:0019827) (original) (raw)

Accession

GO:0019827

Name

stem cell population maintenance

Ontology

biological_process

Synonyms

maintenance of pluripotency

Alternate IDs

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Definition

The process by which an organism or tissue maintains a population of stem cells of a single type. This can be achieved by a number of mechanisms: stem cell asymmetric division maintains stem cell numbers; stem cell symmetric division increases them; maintenance of a stem cell niche maintains the conditions for commitment to the stem cell fate for some types of stem cell; stem cells may arise de novo from other cell types.Source: ISBN:0878932437,GOC:mah

Comment

None

History

See term history for GO:0019827 at QuickGO

Chem. react.

None

Subset

None

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