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

CFU-Mast
Details
Gives rise toMast cells
LocationBone marrow
FunctionColony forming unit
Identifiers
THH2.00.04.3.02014
Anatomical terms of microanatomy

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.2006.08.002. PMID 17052675.