title: Preservation of granulopoietic precursors in nonfrozen, stored human bone marrow.
abstract: We have examined procedures for maintaining human bone marrow in a viable state for a period of 1 to 3 days. Various fractionation methods and environmental conditions were compared, and these results indicate that unfractionated, washed bone marrow cells stored at 25 C in a CO2-charged incubator gave the highest total recovery of granulopoietic stem cells capable of colony formation in vitro. After 24- and 48-hr incubation, a mean of 93 and 89% were preserved. Room temperature storage of bone marrow may have clinical applicability in autologous marrow infusion after high-dose chemoradiotherapy.
mesh_terms: D001853:Bone Marrow; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D002469:Cell Separation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002499:Centrifugation, Density Gradient; D006098:Granulocytes; D006410:Hematopoiesis; D006801:Humans; D007962:Leukocytes; D013696:Temperature; D013997:Time Factors; D014021:Tissue Preservation