Blood, 1960, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 1020-1028.
© 1960 American Society of Hematology, Inc.
Motility Studies of Human Postmortem Bone Marrow
VERNON P. PERRY 1,
ROBERT E. STEVENSON 1,
WILLIAM MCFARLAND 1, and
GEORGE A. ZINK 1
1 Tissue Bank Department, Naval Medical School, and the U. S. Naval Hospital
(W. McF.), National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md.
The source of an adequate supply of human bone marrow for transplantation purposes presents a distinct problem. The use of cadaver marrow has
been suggested.
Studies of 70 human cadaver bone marrow preparations obtained from 1.5
to over 102 hours postmortem were examined by tissue culture and photomicrographic technics to correlate the survival of leukocyte motility with the
time postmortem.
Motile cells were present in marrow up to and including 50 hours after
death, thus suggesting the possibility of using such marrow as a practical
source of viable marrow cells.
Submitted on August 21, 1959
Accepted on January 29, 1960
