CFU-Mast

CFU-Mast
Details
Gives rise to	Mast cells
Location	Bone marrow
Function	Colony forming unit
Identifiers
TH	H2.00.04.3.02014
*Anatomical terms of microanatomy*

CFU-Mast is a colony forming unit.

It gives rise to mast cells.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ Kasugai T, Tei H, Okada M, et al. (March 1995). "Infection with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis induces invasion of mast cell precursors from peripheral blood to small intestine". Blood. 85 (5): 1334–40. PMID 7532039.
↑ Fukumoto T, Tsuboi I, Harada T, et al. (December 2006). "Inflammatory biomarker, neopterin, enlarges splenic mast-cell-progenitor pool: prominent impairment of responses in age-related stromal cell-impairment mouse SCI/SAM". Int. Immunopharmacol. 6 (12): 1847–58. doi:10.1016/j.intimp.2006.08.002. PMID 17052675.

Main cell types in blood

Macrophages	Histiocytes Kupffer cells Alveolar macrophage Microglia Osteoclasts Epithelioid cells giant cells Langhans giant cells, Foreign-body giant cell Touton giant cells
Other	Antigen presenting cells Dendritic cells Langerhans cell CFU-DL CFU-M MPS

Red blood cells

Other

Precursor cells
Myelomonocyte

Other

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