PURPOSE To determine the role of complement and Fas Ligand (FasL) in the host defense against Staphylococcus aureus endophthalmitis. METHODS C3-/-, FasL defective gld, and C57/BL6 (wild-type [WT]) mice were infected intravitreally with 500 and 5000 CFU S. aureus, and the course of infection was followed by determining the intraocular bacteria counts, retinal function by ERG, and morphologic d...

The capacity of normal livers in adult mice to support proliferation of pluripotent hemopoietic stem cells (CFU-S) was studied. We assayed CFU-S of the blood and livers of mice with intact marrows and of mice whose marrows had been ablated with “Sr (4 zCi/g) either before or after removal of their spleens, the major hemopoietic organ in marrow-ablated mice. Splenectomy alone resulted in an incr...

Isokinetic-gradient sedimentation employing a shallow linear gradient of Ficoll in tissue culture medium was used to isolate erythroid progenitor cells (CFU-e) from mouse bone marrow. Following gradient sedimentation, 34% of the total nucleated cells and 48% of the CFU-e applied to the gradient were recovered, and three distinct modal populations of CFU-e could be distinguished. The slowest-mig...

-Characteristics of the AKB6F1 mouse strain make it suitable as an assay animal for quantitating haemopoietic stem cells, or spleen colony-forming units (CFU-S), from leukaemic AKR mice. Marrow cells harvested from leukaemic mice were assayed for CFU-S in lethally irradiated AKR or AKB6F1 hosts. Survival times and numbers of leukaemic colony-forming units (L-CFU) in unirradiated recipients were...

Bone marrow cells in suspension were separated into a number of fractions on the basis of cell size by sedimentation at unit gravity through gradients of fetal calf serum. The colony forming units (CFU) from the various fractions were tested for their self-renewal capacity using a double transplantation technique. The results indicate that the CFU in the fractions containing slowly sedimenting ...

Osteoclasts are bone resorbing cells of hematopoietic origin; however, a progenitor cell population that gives rise to mature osteoclasts remains elusive. We have characterized a unique cell surface phenotype of clonogenic osteoclast progenitors (colony-forming unit-osteoclast [CFU-O]) and obtained a marrow cell population selectively enriched for these progenitors. Whole bone marrow cells were...

This is the first report on the use of a normally lethal dose of ciprofloxacin in a Campylobacter agar medium to kill all ciprofloxacin-sensitive Campylobacter spp. but allow the selective isolation and quantitation of naturally occurring presumptive ciprofloxacin-resistant Campylobacter CFU in rinses from retail raw chicken carcasses (RTCC). Thermophilic-group total Campylobacter CFU and total...

Current assays of human committed-stem cells are of limited value in predicting the rate of engraftment or in assessing the integrity of the stem cell pool after allogeneic bone marrow (BM) transplantation (BMT). We have used a limiting dilution assay of mafosfamide-resistant progenitors (pre-colony-forming units [CFU]), which are ancestral to committed progenitors such as CFU-granulocyte-macro...