Studies of circulating hemopoietic progenitor cells in human fetal blood
DC Linch, LJ Knott, CH Rodeck and ER Huehns
High levels of committed erythroid and granulocytic/monocytic progenitor
cells have been demonstrated in fresh blood obtained at fetoscopy. The
fetal progenitor cells were more sensitive to appropriate stimuli
(erythropoietin and colony-stimulating factor) than adult progenitor cells
grown under the same conditions, and this was shown to be due to intrinsic
differences in the progenitor cells at the different developmental stages.
Volume 59,
Issue 5,
pp. 976-979,
05/01/1982
Copyright © 1982 by The American Society of Hematology