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Mononuclear cells, harvested from fresh human bone marrow specimens by density gradient separation, were suspended in phosphate buffered saline and analyzed by flow cytometry in terms of the forward and right angle scattering of the incident light. The rectilinear distribution, obtained by plotting the intensity of light scattered in the forward and right angle directions, contained three regions of interest in which the percentage of cells (Mean ± standard deviation) with respect to the total was as follows: Region 1: 17.6±9.9; region 2: 5.3±1.4; region 3: 71.7±9.4. Cells from each region were sorted by flow cytometry and plated in semi-solid agar containing cell conditioned medium supportive of myeloid colony formation. Cells from region 2 contained the majority of progenitor cells that gave rise to such colonies at a plating efficiency that rose in proportion to the extent by which the region 2 cells in samples was increased through sorting. This increase in plating efficiency was 6 to 43 fold. Thus, region 2 of the cytometric distribution of cells from normal, unstained human bone marrows was a good source of myeloid progenitor cells.
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Einspenner, M., Sargent, M.D., Chelack, W.S. et al. Enrichment of progenitor cells from human bone marrow by flow cytometry. Mol Cell Biochem 84, 239–243 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00421059
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