A Clonal Culture Assay for Human Cord Blood Lymphohematopoietic Progenitors.

Lymphohematopoietic Progenitors

Yoshikawa, Y.; Ikebuchi, K.; Ohkawara, J.; Hirayama, F.; Yamaguchi, M.; Sato, N.; Mori, K.J.; Kasai, M.; Sekiguchi, S. "A Clonal Culture Assay for Human Cord Blood Lymphohematopoietic Progenitors." Human Immunology, January 1999;60(1):75-82.

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Human Immunology, "We describe a two-step clonal culture assay system for human lymphohematopoietic progenitors present in umbilical cord blood, which are capable of differentiation along both myeloid and B-lymphoid lineages. Human cord blood CD34(+) cells were plated in methylcellulose in the presence of stem cell factor (SCF), …