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Sex specificity in the blood

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Haematopoietic stem cells, from which blood cells originate, are shown to respond to oestrogen and divide more frequently in female mice than in males, probably preparing females for the increased demand for blood in pregnancy. See Letter p.555

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Figure 1: Oestrogen regulates stem-cell cycling.

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  1. Dena S. Leeman and Anne Brunet are in the Department of Genetics, the Cancer Biology Program, and the Glenn Laboratories for the Biology of Aging, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.,

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