unipotent

[ yoo-nip-uh-tuhnt ]

adjective

, Biology.

1. (of cells) capable of developing into only one type of cell or tissue.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unipotent¹

uni- + potent ¹

Example Sentences

Identification of unipotent megakaryocyte progenitors in human hematopoiesis.

From Nature

In the human model, blood differentiation initiates at the level of multipotent stem cells and passes through a series of increasingly lineage-restricted oligopotent and, finally, unipotent progenitor intermediates.

From Science Magazine

Oligopotent progenitors were only a negligible component of the human blood hierarchy in BM, leading to the inference that multipotent cells differentiate into unipotent cells directly by adulthood.

From Science Magazine

In a classical view of hematopoiesis, the various blood cell lineages arise via a hierarchical scheme starting with multipotent stem cells that become increasingly restricted in their differentiation potential through oligopotent and then unipotent progenitors.

From Science Magazine

Instead, only two progenitor classes predominate, multipotent and unipotent, with Er-Mk lineages emerging from multipotent cells.

From Science Magazine