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Subtype of a type of stem cell
In
biology CFU-Mast is a
colony forming unit. It gives rise to
mast cells.
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References
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doi:
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PMID
7532039.
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^ Fukumoto T, Tsuboi I, Harada T, Hiramoto M, Minami A, Koshinaga M, Hirabayashi Y, Kanno J, Inoue T, Aizawa S (December 2006). "Inflammatory biomarker, neopterin, enlarges splenic mast-cell-progenitor pool: prominent impairment of responses in age-related stromal cell-impairment mouse SCI/SAM". International Immunopharmacology. 6 (12): 1847–58.
doi:
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PMID
17052675.