“…Recent studies have identified some essential cellular components of the HSC niche in the murine bone marrow, including osteoblasts (Calvi et al, 2003;Zhang et al, 2003;Arai et al, 2004), sinusoidal endothelial cells (Kiel et al, 2005), mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) (Mendez-Ferrer et al, 2010;Kunisaki et al, 2013), perivascular cells (Sugiyama et al, 2006), macrophages (Winkler et al, 2010), and megakaryocytes (Zhao et al, 2014;Bruns et al, 2014;Nakamura-Ishizu et al, 2014).…”