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Bone Marrow Aspiration: A Method to Obtain Bone Marrow to Examine Cell Morphology
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2023
This video describes the technique of aspirating bone marrow from iliac spine and smear preparation for biopsy. In the example, we perform bone marrow aspiration from an acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patient and examine the cells to check for measurable residual disease (MRD), an important prognostic biomarker.
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Isolation, Purification and Labeling of Mouse Bone Marrow Neutrophils for Functional Studies and Adoptive Transfer Experiments
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2013
We describe a protocol for isolation and purification of neutrophils from mouse bone marrow by density gradient centrifugation and for neutrophil labeling using CellTracker dyes. This represents a simple, fast, reproducible and economical method for obtaining large numbers of neutrophils for downstream functional studies or adoptive transfer and tracking experiments.
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Bone Marrow-derived Macrophage Production
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2013
Macrophages have long been recognized as a critical component of the innate and adaptive immune responses. The recent explosion of knowledge pertaining to evolutionary, genetic, and biochemical aspects of the interaction between macrophages and microbes has renewed scientific attention to macrophages. This article describes a method to differentiate macrophages from mouse bone marrow.
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Bone Marrow-Derived Dendritic Cells Generation: A Method to Generate Dendritic Cells from Mouse Bone Marrow
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2023
This video describes a protocol for the generation of dendritic cells--key antigen-presenting cells that activate T cells--from the bone marrow of an adult mouse.
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Homing of Hematopoietic Cells to the Bone Marrow
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2009
This article describes a protocol used to study the homing of hematopoietic cells to their niches in the bone marrow.
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Conditioning uses chemotherapy, radiation, or both to suppress the recipient’s existing marrow and immune system before the infusion. This preparation creates the conditions for the incoming hematopoietic stem cells to reach marrow tissue and engraft. Its dual effect is biologically important because it addresses both the damaged blood-forming environment and immune activity around transplantation.
Engraftment marks the point at which infused hematopoietic stem cells travel to marrow and begin restoring blood formation. Once established, the transplanted cells support production of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. These lineages connect stem-cell activity to recovery of the major cellular components needed for blood and immune function.
Beyond its medical use, the procedure provides a model for examining stem cell development, immune reconstitution, tissue compatibility, and graft-versus-host disease. These areas allow biology researchers to follow how blood-forming cells become functional, how immune capacity is restored, and how compatibility between transplanted tissue and recipient tissue affects the transplant context.
The sequence begins with conditioning by chemotherapy, radiation, or both. Healthy hematopoietic stem cells are then infused into the recipient. The cells travel to the marrow, where they engraft and restore production of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. This sequence links preparation, cell delivery, marrow establishment, and blood-forming recovery.
Bone marrow transfer is used in the treatment of leukemia, lymphoma, aplastic anemia, and inherited blood disorders. These conditions differ, but they share a connection to abnormal, damaged, or inadequate blood-forming tissue. Replacing that tissue with healthy hematopoietic stem cells can support renewed production of the blood-cell types required for biological function.
The procedure connects clinical treatment with fundamental biology because it combines stem-cell development, blood formation, immune reconstitution, and tissue compatibility in one system. Its outcomes can be considered in terms of marrow engraftment and restored red-cell, white-cell, and platelet production, while graft-versus-host disease provides an additional context for studying transplant biology.