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Femoral Bone Marrow Aspiration in Live Mice
Authors:Young Rock Chung  Eunhee Kim  Omar Abdel-Wahab
Affiliation:1.Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Abstract:Serial sampling of the cellular composition of bone marrow (BM) is a routine procedure critical to clinical hematology. This protocol describes a detailed step-by-step technical procedure for an analogous procedure in live mice which allows for serial characterization of cells present in the BM. This procedure facilitates studies aimed to detect the presence of exogenously administered cells within the BM of mice as would be done in xenograft studies for instance. Moreover, this procedure allows for the retrieval and characterization of cells enriched in the BM such as hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) without sacrifice of mice. Given that the cellular composition of peripheral blood is not necessarily reflective of proportions and types of stem and progenitor cells present in the marrow, procedures which provide access to this compartment without requiring termination of the mice are very helpful. The use of femoral bone marrow aspiration is illustrated here for cytological analysis of marrow cells, flow cytometric characterization of the hematopoietic stem/progenitor compartment, and culture of sorted HSPCs obtained by femoral BM aspiration compared with conventional marrow harvest.
Keywords:Medicine   Issue 89   Bone marrow   Leukemia   Hematopoiesis   Aspiration   Mouse Model   Hematopoietic Stem Cell
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