For mouse phenotyping peripheral blood and bone marrow from femurs were collected from animals of different genotypes and processed as previously described.16 (link) For flow analysis, samples were stained with Gr1-PE (Miltenyi Biotec, Woking, UK), CD11b (Mac1)-FITC (Becton Dickinson), CD71-PE (Becton Dickinson), Ter119-Fitc (Becton Dickinson). For analysis of progenitor populations BM cells were lysed with Red Blood Cell buffer (NH4, Cl) and then enriched with the EasySep Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Isolation Kit (StemCell Technologies, Cambridge, UK) followed by staining with following antibodies Sca1-PB, c-KIT-Acy7, CD34-FITC, Flk2-PeCy5, Cd16/32-PE, CD150-PeCy7, CD48-APC.
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