Biology:CFU-Mast

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Short description: Subtype of a type of stem cell
CFU-Mast
Details
Gives rise toMast cells
LocationBone marrow
FunctionColony forming unit
Anatomical terms of microanatomy

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

References

  1. "Infection with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis induces invasion of mast cell precursors from peripheral blood to small intestine". Blood 85 (5): 1334–40. March 1995. doi:10.1182/blood.V85.5.1334.bloodjournal8551334. PMID 7532039. http://www.bloodjournal.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=7532039. 
  2. "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. December 2006. doi:10.1016/j.intimp.2006.08.002. PMID 17052675.