CFU-Mast explained

CFU-Mast
Location:	Bone marrow
Function:	Colony forming unit
Givesriseto:	Mast cells

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

Notes and References

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2. Fukumoto T, Tsuboi I, Harada T, Hiramoto M, Minami A, Koshinaga M, Hirabayashi Y, Kanno J, Inoue T, Aizawa S . 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 . December 2006 . 17052675 . 10.1016/j.intimp.2006.08.002 .