Colonies with a unique compact morphology and displaying high repfating potential develop in methycellulose cultures when bone marrow cells from hydroxyurea-or 5-fluorouracil-treated mice are cultured in the presence of syngeneic thymocytes. These compact colonies are clonal, originating from a sing
Clonal nature of murine hemopoietic blast cell colonies
β Scribed by Fujimori, Yoshihiro ;Hara, Hiroshi ;Taguchi, Tetsuya ;Kitamura, Yukihiko ;Nagai, Kiyoyasu
- Book ID
- 104720549
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1988
- Weight
- 848 KB
- Volume
- 57
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1432-0584
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β¦ Synopsis
Murine hemopoietic blast cell colonies obtained from spleen cells of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)-treated mice give rise to many multilineage colonies including granulocyte - erythrocyte - macrophage - megakaryocyte (GEMM) colonies in secondary cultures. Progenitor cells for blast cell colonies are considered to be more primitive than colony forming units (CFU)-GEMM. To determine whether they are clonal, we examined the phosphoglycerate kinase-1 (PGK-1) isozyme type of colonies originally grown from spleen cells of 5-FU-treated mice which had PGK-1 isozyme mosaicism. PGK assays of whole secondary colonies derived from one blast cell colony showed that they were either of type A or type B but not both. These results suggest that murine hemopoietic blast cell colonies are clonal.
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