title: Myeloid and erythroid hemopoiesis supported by human bone marrow fibroblasts in vitro.
abstract: The passages 0 and 3 purified human bone marrow fibroblast layers (FLs) were established by long-term liquid cultures. After 12-day coculture of stromal. cell-depleted marrow cell suspensions with passage 0 FLs, 68.33 +/- 4.04% of the hemopoietic colonies adhered to FLs was myeloid in nature and the other 31.67 +/- 4.04% was erythroid. There were still CFU-E (colony forming unit-erythroid), BFU-E (burst forming unit- erythroid), and CFU-GM (colony forming unit-granulocyte/macrophage) among the nonadherent cells. The media conditioned by passage 0 (F0-CM) and passage 3(F3-CM) FLs stimulated the growth of myeloid and erythroid (BFU-E) colonies. From these data, it is concluded that both FLs and the media conditioned by fibroblasts can stimulate myeloid and erythroid hemopoiesis.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Hunan Medical University, Changsha.
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Q R
authors.initials: QR
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Y H
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors / Q000378:metabolism; D015672:Erythroid Precursor Cells / Q000166:cytology; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D006410:Hematopoiesis; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors