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Fig. 3.

$Fig. 3. Long-term bone marrow cultures. / (A) Percentage of confluence in the adherent layer of standard LTBMCs in patients with RA (n = 25) and healthy controls (n = 25). (B) Mean frequency of CFCs (± SEM) in the nonadherent cell fraction throughout 8 weeks of culture. (C) Mean number of CFCs (± SEM) in the nonadherent cell fraction of irradiated and recharged LTBMCs from 8 patients with RA and 5 healthy controls over a period of 5 weeks following the CD34+ cell inoculum. Comparison between patient and healthy cultures was performed using the 2-way analysis of variance test.$

Long-term bone marrow cultures.

(A) Percentage of confluence in the adherent layer of standard LTBMCs in patients with RA (n = 25) and healthy controls (n = 25). (B) Mean frequency of CFCs (± SEM) in the nonadherent cell fraction throughout 8 weeks of culture. (C) Mean number of CFCs (± SEM) in the nonadherent cell fraction of irradiated and recharged LTBMCs from 8 patients with RA and 5 healthy controls over a period of 5 weeks following the CD34⁺ cell inoculum. Comparison between patient and healthy cultures was performed using the 2-way analysis of variance test.

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