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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 27.
Published in final edited form as: Cell. 2014 Mar 27;157(1):41–50. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.02.013

Figure 1. Elements of a stem cell niche as originally proposed by Raymond Schofield.

Figure 1

Image of Schofield provided by his colleague Brian Lord. Note the background drawing of the blind men and the elephant parable: an appropriate cautionary reminder of the need for integration of partial information for full understanding of niche biology.