The endocardium lines the interior of the heart chambers and has been debated as a source of hematopoietic lineages. Here they show that the endocardium may act as a source of, and resident tissue for, hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in zebrafish, providing evidence for diversity in origins and residences of hematopoietic cells.
- Dorothee Bornhorst
- Amulya V. Hejjaji
- Felix Gunawan