title: [Morphological observation of erythroid progenitor cell differentiation in vitro].
abstract: Iscove's methylcellulose method was adopted and modified for the culture of erythroid progenitor cells isolated from BABL/c mouse bone marrow, and in vitro differentiation of the erythroid cell colonies was observed morphologically. Experimental results indicated: (1) in culture medium with a low concentration of erythropoietin, colonies of different sizes composed of tens to several tens of largely unsynchronized cells were formed from the late erythroid progenitor cells (CFU-E); (2) in culture medium with a high concentration of erythropoietin, the early erythroid progenitor cells (BFU-E) could be stimulated to form larger colonies which consisted of several thousand to ten thousand more highly synchronized cells; and (3) the process of pyknosis and extrusion of nuclei from the late erythroblasts could be readily observed in both the CFU-E and BFU-E colonies.
authors.forename: Q Y
authors.initials: QY
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004921:Erythropoietin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000187:drug effects*; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C
chemical_list: D004921:Erythropoietin