stem cell maintenance

id: GO:0019827
name: stem cell maintenance
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The process in which an organism retains a population of stem cells, preventing the commitment of all stem cell progeny to a differentiated cell fate.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0010074maintenance of meristem identity
GO:0030718germ-line stem cell maintenance
GO:0035019somatic stem cell maintenance
GO:0097150neuronal stem cell maintenance

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0032502developmental process
GO:0045596negative regulation of cell differentiation