CFU-Mast

Subtype of a type of stem cell

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 [edit on Wikidata]

In biology CFU-Mast is a colony forming unit. It gives rise to mast cells.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Kasugai T, Tei H, Okada M, Hirota S, Morimoto M, Yamada M, Nakama A, Arizono N, Kitamura Y (March 1995). "Infection with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis induces invasion of mast cell precursors from peripheral blood to small intestine" . Blood. 85 (5): 1334–40. doi:10.1182/blood.V85.5.1334.bloodjournal8551334 . PMID 7532039.
^ 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:10.1016/j.intimp.200608002. PMID 17052675.

Myeloid blood cells and plasma

CFU-GM	Granulopoiesis Myeloblast Promyelocyte Myelocyte Metamyelocyte Band cell Monocytopoiesis Monoblast Promonocyte
MEP	Thrombopoiesis Megakaryoblast Promegakaryocyte Erythropoiesis Proerythroblast Normoblast Reticulocyte

General

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 Monoblast MPS