CFU-Mast

In biology CFU-Mast is a colony forming unit. It gives rise to mast cells.[1][2]

CFU-Mast
Details
Gives rise toMast cells
LocationBone marrow
FunctionColony forming unit
Identifiers
THH2.00.04.3.02014
Anatomical terms of microanatomy

References

  1. Kasugai T, Tei H, Okada M, Hirota S, Morimoto M, Yamada M, Nakama A, Arizono N, Kitamura Y (March 1995). "Infection with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis induces invasion of mast cell precursors from peripheral blood to small intestine". Blood. 85 (5): 1334–40. doi:10.1182/blood.V85.5.1334.bloodjournal8551334. PMID 7532039.
  2. Fukumoto T, Tsuboi I, Harada T, Hiramoto M, Minami A, Koshinaga M, Hirabayashi Y, Kanno J, Inoue T, Aizawa S (December 2006). "Inflammatory biomarker, neopterin, enlarges splenic mast-cell-progenitor pool: prominent impairment of responses in age-related stromal cell-impairment mouse SCI/SAM". International Immunopharmacology. 6 (12): 1847–58. doi:10.1016/j.intimp.2006.08.002. PMID 17052675.
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