"Cryopreserved Human Bone Marrow Stroma Is Fully Functional in vitro."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in British Journal of Haematology, "Human marrow long-term culture (LTC) enables maintenance of both stromal and haemopoietic elements of normal bone marrow (NBM) in vitro for 4-6 months. Stroma-based cultures are critical for quantitation of long-term culture initiating cells (LTC-IC), the most primitive human haemopoietic cells measurable in vitro. Supply of NBM can be sporadic, and up to 3-4 weeks in culture is required for stromal maturity. Stroma availability for experimental purposes can therefore be limited. Efforts to produce transformed human and transfected murine stromal cell lines comparable to NBM stroma have had...

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