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The most common approaches to quantify multi-lineage- or single lineage-committed hematopoietic progenitors, called colony-forming cells (CFCs) or colony-forming units (CFUs), utilize viscous or semi-solid matrices and culture supplements that promote their proliferation and differentiation and allow the clonal progeny of a single progenitor cell to stay together and thus form a colony of more mature cells. Culture media have been optimized for outgrowth of erythroid, monocyte/macrophage, granulocytic, megakaryocytic and multipotent progenitor cells. Colony assays are used to quantitate and characterize hematopoietic progenitors from different sources (e.g., bone marrow (BM), umbilical cord blood (UCB), mobilized peripheral blood (MPB), f |
