title: The distribution of colony-forming cells in the kidney.
abstract: A method is described for producing outgrowths of small nephron segments (average 24 cells) in culture. The method was used to estimate an overall colony-forming efficiency of 4.6% for cells constituting the segments. Efficiency was found to be lower for thick segments (1%) than for thin segments (6%) from Henle's loop. The latter higher level indicates that precursor cells are concentrated near the middle of the nephron. For comparison, a two-dose irradiation technique was used to calculate a mean number of 5 +/- 2 (SE) clonogens per segment producing outgrowths. This tended to be higher than the value of about 1 calculated from the 65% of segments producing outgrowths, as expected if the remaining segments contained no clonogens.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Research Campaign Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Christie Hospital (NHS) Trust, Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: Y M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Jen
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Hendry
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000166:cytology* / Q000528:radiation effects; D007684:Kidney Tubules / Q000166:cytology* / Q000528:radiation effects; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D009924:Organ Culture Techniques; D013234:Stem Cells