Glossary of Hematopoietic Terminology

Glossary of Hematopoietic Terminology



4-HC
 4-hydroxyperoxycyclophosphamide
 

AML
 acute myelogenous leukemia
 

BFU-E
 burst-forming unit erythroid
 

BM
 bone marrow
 

bnx
 beige/nude/xid
 

CB cord blood

CFC
 colony-forming cell
 

CFU colony-forming unit

CFU-G
 colony-forming unit granulocyte
 

CFU-GM
 colony-forming-unit granulocyte-macrophage
 

CFU-M
 colony-forming unit macrophage
 

CFU-Mk
 colony-forming-unit megakaryocyte
 

cloning efficiency
 percentage of cells that are CFC
 

CML
 chronic myelogenous leukemia
 

CSF
 colony stimulating factor
 

CTL
 cytotoxic (or cytolytic) T-lymphocyte
 

CY
 cyclophosphamide
 

DMEM
 Dulbecco’s modified MEM
 

DMSO
 dimethyl sulfoxide
 

Epo
 erythropoietin
 

ex vivo
 outside the body
 

FACS
 fluoresence-activated cell sorting
 

FGF
 fibroblast growth factor
 

FL
 flt3 ligand
 

flt3L
 flt3 ligand
 

G-CSF
 granulocyte CSF
 

GM-CSF
 granulocyte-macrophage CSF
 

GVHD
 graft-versus-host disease
 

GVL
 graft-versus-leukemia
 

HLTM
 human long term medium
 

IMDM
 Iscove’s modified DMEM
 

IL-#
 interleukin-(1 to 18)
 

in vitro in culture

in vivo inside the body

KL
 c-kit ligand (same cytokine as SCF)
 

LTC-IC
 long-term culture-initiating cell
 

MEM minimal essential medium

M-CSF
 macrophage CSF
 

MNC
 mononuclear cell
 

MPB
 ‘mobilized’ peripheral blood
 

PB
 peripheral blood
 

pH acidity level

PIXY321
 synthetic fusion of GM-CSF & IL-3
 

RBC
 red blood cell
 

SCF
 stem cell factor
 

SCID
 severe combined immunodeficiency
 

SEM
 standard error of the mean
 

SF serum free

TBI
 total body irradiation
 

XVIVO-20
 commercial SF medium (BioWhittaker)





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