Year: 1972
Type: article
Abstract: Bone marrow colony formation in soft gel culture may be stimulated by substances elaborated by human peripheral blood leukocytes. In order to determine the cell type responsible for colony stimulation, peripheral leukocytes were separated by Ficoll-Hypaque gradients and differential glass adhesion. Morphologic, histochemical, and functional criteria were applied to determine the purity of the monocyte, lymphocyte, and neutrophil fractions. Using these cells as feeder layers and as a source of conditioned medium, evidence was obtained that the monocyte is the colony-stimulating cell of human peripheral blood. Activity greater than that of mixed white cells was obtained with monocyte underlayers, and only monocyte- and macrophage-conditioned media were shown to have significant colony-stimulating activity.
DOI: 10.1172/jci107124
Authors: David W. Golde, Martin J. Cline
Language: English
Subfield: Hematology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2014706447