Term: caudal hematopoietic tissue erythroid progenitor cell
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Name: caudal hematopoietic tissue
Synonyms:
Definition: Tissue that lies between the caudal artery and the caudal vein plexus where definitive hematopoiesis occurs after 48hpf and before the hematopoietic progenitors migrate to the thymus and kidney.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0005898]
Name: erythroid progenitor cell
Synonyms: BFU-E, blast forming unit erythroid, burst forming unit erythroid, CFU-E, colony forming unit erythroid, erythroid stem cell
Definition: A progenitor cell committed to the erythroid lineage.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0009015]