A novel serum free system for cloning human megakaryocytic progenitors (CFU-Meg). The role of thrombopoietin and other cytokines on bone marrow and cord blood CFU-Meg growth under serum free conditions

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 61-66

  Ratajczak, Janina ^a   Machaliński, Bogusław ^b   Samuel, Anand ^a   Pertusini, Esther ^a   Majka, Marcin ^a   Czajka, Ryszard ^b   Ratajczak, Mariusz Z ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

CFU Meg; Cord blood; Growth factors; Megakaryopoiesis; Serum free cultures

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; THROMBOPOIETIN;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL GROWTH; CELL STIMULATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEGAKARYOCYTE; MEGAKARYOPOIESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STEM CELL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0345451028     PISSN: 00155586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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