Colony-Forming Units Assay

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A functional tethered ligand thrombin receptor is present on human hematopoietic progenitor cells. 
  • A phase I trial of recombinant human interleukin-1 beta (OCT-43) following high-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation. 
  • A pilot study of dose-intensified procarbazine, CCNU, vincristine for poor prognosis brain tumors utilizing fibronectin-assisted, retroviral-mediated modification of CD34+ peripheral blood cells with O6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase. 
  • Absence of phosphatidylinositol (PI)-linked proteins in a very early human multipotential haematopoietic marrow cell. 
  • Apoptosis is the mode of cell death caused by carcinogenic chromium. 
  • Augmentation of umbilical cord blood (UCB) transplantation with ex vivo-expanded UCB cells: results of a phase 1 trial using the AastromReplicell System. 
  • Autologous bone marrow transplantation in acute myelogenous leukemia: in vitro treatment with myeloid-specific monoclonal antibodies and drugs in combination. 
  • Characterization of banked umbilical cord blood hematopoietic progenitor cells and lymphocyte subsets and correlation with ethnicity, birth weight, sex, and type of delivery: a Cord Blood Transplantation (COBLT) Study report. 
  • Characterization of the hematopoietic defect in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. 
  • Circulating endothelial progenitor cells predict coronary artery disease severity. 
  • Cloning of B cells from autoimmune MRL-lpr/lpr and MRL.xid mice. 
  • Comparison of hematopoietic progenitor cells in human umbilical cord blood collected from neonatal infants who are small and appropriate for gestational age. 
  • Complement sensitivity of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria bone marrow cells. 
  • Differential toxicity of carbovir and AZT to human bone marrow hematopoietic progenitor cells in vitro. 
  • Dyshematopoiesis in combined immune deficiency with congenital neutropenia. 
  • Early events in human T cell ontogeny. Phenotypic characterization and immunohistologic localization of T cell precursors in early human fetal tissues. 
  • Effect of thymopoietin and interleukin 2 on depressed mitogenic responsiveness and colony formation of lymphocytes from patients with preleukemia. 
  • Effects of interleukin-1 on hematopoietic progenitors: evidence of stimulatory and inhibitory activities in a primate model. 
  • Effects of interleukin-3 on hematopoietic recovery after 5-fluorouracil or cyclophosphamide treatment of cynomolgus primates. 
  • Elimination of clonogenic malignant human T cells using monoclonal antibodies in combination with 2'-deoxycoformycin. 
  • Enhanced HIV-1 activity in bone marrow can lead to myelopoietic suppression partially contributed by gag p24. 
  • Enrichment of peripheral blood stem cells in a primate model following administration of a single dose of rh-IL-1 beta. 
  • Familial polycythemia due to truncations of the erythropoietin receptor. 
  • Fetal bone marrow as a source of stem cells for in utero or postnatal transplantation. 
  • Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) as an adjunct to autologous hemopoietic stem cell transplantation for lymphoma. 
  • Hematopoietic recovery following high-dose combined alkylating-agent chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow support in patients in phase-I clinical trials of colony-stimulating factors: G-CSF, GM-CSF, IL-1, IL-2, M-CSF. 
  • Human thymic epithelial cells produce granulocyte and macrophage colony-stimulating factors. 
  • Hydroxyethyl starch as a substitute for dextran 40 for thawing peripheral blood progenitor cell products. 
  • IFN-{beta} signaling positively regulates tumorigenesis in aggressive fibromatosis, potentially by modulating mesenchymal progenitors. 
  • Immature human thymocytes can be driven to differentiate into nonlymphoid lineages by cytokines from thymic epithelial cells. 
  • Immunopharmacologic purging of breast cancer from bone marrow for autologous bone marrow transplantation. 
  • In vitro cytotoxicity of 211At-labeled trastuzumab in human breast cancer cell lines: effect of specific activity and HER2 receptor heterogeneity on survival fraction. 
  • In vitro evaluation of hematopoiesis in mice treated with busulphan or nitrogen mustard. 
  • Inflammation controls B lymphopoiesis by regulating chemokine CXCL12 expression. 
  • Inhibiting glycogen synthase kinase-3 mitigates the hematopoietic acute radiation syndrome in mice. 
  • Microtubule stabilization and potentiation of taxol activity by the creatine analog cyclocreatine. 
  • Mid-trimester fetal livers are a rich source of CD34+/++ cells for transplantation. 
  • Mobilization, collection, and processing of autologous peripheral blood stem cells: development of a clinical process with associated costs. 
  • Modification of a commercial cell sorter to support efficient and reliable preparation of ALDH-bright cells for clinical use. 
  • Notch1 perturbation of hemopoiesis involves non-cell- autonomous modifications. 
  • Opsonic requirements for intravascular clearance after splenectomy. 
  • Optimization and characterization of the capillary human tumor clonogenic cell assay. 
  • Optimization of a Novel Series of Ataxia-Telangiectasia Mutated Kinase Inhibitors as Potential Radiosensitizing Agents. 
  • Phenotypic characterization of human bone marrow granulocyte-macrophage forming progenitor cells. 
  • Purification and partial characterization of a human hematopoietic precursor population. 
  • Reculturing of cells from primary CFU-C colonies. 
  • Resistance to apoptosis, increased growth potential, and altered gene expression in cells that survived genotoxic hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] exposure. 
  • Studies of T-lymphocytes in preleukemic disorders and acute nonlymphocytic leukemia: in vitro radiosensitivity, mitogenic responsiveness, colony formation, and enumeration of lymphocytic subpopulations. 
  • Survival and DNA damage in Chinese hamster V79 cells exposed to alpha particles emitted by DNA-incorporated astatine-211. 
  • The in vitro growth of murine high proliferative potential-colony forming cells is not enhanced by growth in a low oxygen atmosphere. 
  • The use of in vitro technics to study drug-induced pancytopenia. 
  • Transcriptional regulation of Bim by FOXO3a and Akt mediates scleroderma serum-induced apoptosis in endothelial progenitor cells. 
  • Urease expression by Cryptococcus neoformans promotes microvascular sequestration, thereby enhancing central nervous system invasion. 
  • Use of Hes1-GFP reporter mice to assess activity of the Hes1 promoter in bone cells under chronic inflammation. 
  • Vascular endothelial cells produce soluble factors that mediate the recovery of human hematopoietic stem cells after radiation injury. 
  • Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) inhibits the proliferation of bone marrow progenitors through the VPAC1 receptor. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Chen, Jun, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Hoffman, Maureane Richardson, Professor of Pathology, Immunology