PMID: 7538347Jan 1, 1994Paper

Harvesting, characterization, and culture of CD34+ cells from human bone marrow, peripheral blood, and cord blood

Blood Cells
D Van EppsJ Burgess

Abstract

Stem and progenitor cells from a variety of sources including bone marrow, cord blood, and peripheral blood have been used for transplantation. This study compares CD34 cells from all three sources. Flow cytometry analysis of CD34 cells in multiple samples of normal peripheral blood and patient peripheral blood mobilized with chemotherapy (cyclophosphamide/VP16), chemotherapy plus granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), and G-CSF alone were compared to bone marrow and cord blood. Although the relative distribution of CD34 percentages in each preparation of cells varied widely, on average the percentage of CD34 cells in these different preparations was 0.15%, 0.6%, 2%, 0.45%, 1.68%, and 0.83% respectively. CD34 subset analysis was performed on these cell preparations using multicolor flow cytometry and antibodies to CD33, CD13, CD45RA, CD19, CD71, and CD38. The major differences observed were that bone marrow CD34 cells contain high percentages of CD19+ cells not found in significant quantity in the other cell preparations and cord blood CD34 cells contained a higher percentage of CD38-cells than the other cell preparations. A magnetic bead system was used with anti-CD34 antibody to purify CD34 cells from mobilized periph...Continue Reading

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