CFU-Eos

{{Short description|Colony forming unit that gives rise to eosinophils}}

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| Location = Bone marrow

| Function = colony forming unit

| GivesRiseTo = Eosinophils

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CFU-Eo is a colony forming unit that gives rise to eosinophils.{{cite book |author=Cotran, Ramzi S. |author2=Kumar, Vinay |author3=Fausto, Nelson |author4=Nelso Fausto |author5=Robbins, Stanley L. |author6=Abbas, Abul K. |title=Robbins and Cotran pathologic basis of disease |publisher=Elsevier Saunders |location=St. Louis, Mo |year=2005 |pages=621 |isbn=0-7216-0187-1 }} Some sources prefer the term "CFU-Eos".{{cite journal |vauthors=Pandit TS, Sikora L, Muralidhar G, Rao SP, Sriramarao P |title=Sustained exposure to nicotine leads to extramedullary hematopoiesis in the spleen |journal=Stem Cells |volume=24 |issue=11 |pages=2373–81 |date=November 2006 |pmid=16825610 |doi=10.1634/stemcells.2005-0447 |s2cid=19378416 |doi-access=free }} It is also known as "hEoP".{{cite journal |vauthors=Mori Y, Iwasaki H, Kohno K |title=Identification of the human eosinophil lineage-committed progenitor: revision of phenotypic definition of the human common myeloid progenitor |journal=J. Exp. Med. |volume=206 |issue=1 |pages=183–93 |date=January 2009 |pmid=19114669 |doi=10.1084/jem.20081756 |url=http://www.jem.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=19114669 |pmc=2626675|display-authors=etal}}