Primitive HSPC from BM or MPB displayed similar differentiation potential in vitro and in vivo
hematopoiesis
To further discriminate between differences in the number primitive cells vs. differences in the functional properties of the two HSPC sources, we tested the capacity of BM- or MPB-derived primitive HSPC of supporting hematopoiesis by performing in vitro and in vivo assays on sorted HSC+MPP populations from either BM (