“…Primary BM cultures produce stromal layers [5, 7‐9, 11, 12], which after irradiation are able to maintain long‐term culture initiating cells (LTC‐IC) being inoculated as mononuclear cell (MNC) fractions and enriched CD34 + populations from mice [4, 10, 13, 14] and humans [9, 11, 12]. Murine and human cell lines such as M2‐10B4, MS5, and 14F1.1, mostly of embryonal origin, are also able to support growth of hematopoietic cells in vitro [1, 7, 15‐19].…”