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Colony Forming Cell (CFC) Assay for Human Hematopoietic Cells
Published on: December 18, 2010
High proliferative potential colony forming cells
T R Bradley1, G S Hodgson, I Bertoncello
1Peter McCallum Cancer Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|March 5, 2011
Abstract:
High proliferative potential colony forming cells (HPP-CFC) in mouse bone marrow (BM) were defined functionally by their ability to form large colonies, greater than 0.5 mm diameter, and containing an average of 5 × 10(4) cells, in low-cell-density nutrient agar cultures after 10-14 d of incubation (1).
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