Within the soluble cytokine network, colony-stimulating factors (CSFs) are a group of protein factors whose defining feature is the ability to drive proliferation and differentiation of hematopoietic progenitors and to regulate the production and functional maturation of myeloid cells.
The isolation and culture of BMDC (bone marrow-derived dendritic cells) is an important technique in immunology research. This protocol will introduce how to isolate immature bone marrow-derived dendritic cells from mice.