Comparisons of Mouse Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Primary Adherent Culture of Compact Bone Fragments and Whole Bone Marrow

Table 1

Cell yields of the first passage from cultured bone marrow and bone fragments.

	Cells of the first passage
	Whole bone marrow	Bone fragments
Culture (days/wells)	10/3	10/3
Cell yield (10^5/well)	1.20 ± 0.41	0.75 ± 0.19
Cell yield (10^5/mouse)	3.50 ± 1.23	2.25 ± 0.57

Bone marrow and fragments were cultured in 3 wells of 6-well plate from two femurs and two tibiae of a mouse for 10 days. Cells yields of cultured bone marrow were slightly higher than those of cultured fragments ().