Text, Supplemental Digital Content 1. Used products and devices.
§ BALB/c nude mice (CLEA, Kawasaki, Japan)
§ EDTA-2Na-containing Venoject II tubes (Terumo, Tokyo, Japan)
§ Histopaque-1077 (Sigma, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)
§ Ammonium chloride potassium (ACK) lysing buffer (Gibco, Life Technologies, Grand Island, New York, USA)
§ Stemline II medium (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)
§ Recombinant human VEGF, SCF, Flt3-ligand, TPO, IL-6, bFGF, IGF, EGF, IL-3 (PeproTech, Rocky Hill, New Jersey, USA)
§ 1% antibiotics (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, California, USA)
§ 6-well plate (BD Falcon, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, USA)
§ Collagenase type 1 (Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd., Osaka, Japan)
§ Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) including 4.5g/L D-glucose, L-glutamine and 110 mg/L sodium pyruvate (Gibco, Life Technologies, Paisley, UK)
§ Fetal bovine serum 10% (Cell Culture Bioscience, Nichirei Bioscience, Tokyo, Japan)
§ 70-µm cell strainer (Falcon, Corning Incorporated, New York, USA)
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LSR Fortessa cell analyzer (BD Biosciences, San Jose, California, USA)§
FlowJo 7.6.5 software (FlowJo LLC, Ashland, Oregon, USA)§ MethoCult™ SF H4236 solid culture medium (Stemcell Technologies, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
§ EGM-2 complete medium (Lonza, Basel, Switzerland)
§ 1,1’-dioctadecyl-3,3,3’,3’-tetramethylindocarbocyanine-labeled acetylated low density lipoprotein (DiI- acLDL; Alpa Aesar, Lancashire, UK)
§ FITC-labeled Ulex europaeus agglutinin 1 (UEA-1; Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, California, USA)
§ Vectashield® Mounting Medium with DAPI (Burlingame, California, USA)
§ Sterile 1-ml Soft-Ject® Luer-lock syringes (Henke-Sass, Wolf, Tuttlingen, Germany)
§ Blunt-tip 16-gauge needle (Stemcell Technologies, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
§ A&D EK-200G balance (Tokyo, Japan)
§ Keyence BZ-9000 Microscope (Keyence Japan Co, Ltd, Osaka, Japan)
§ Keyence BZ-II Analyzer (Keyence Japan Co, Ltd, Osaka, Japan)
§ Primary antibody against CD31 (Abcam ab28364, Cambridge, UK)
§ Biotinylated goat-derived anti-rabbit antibody (DAKO #E432, Glostrup, Denmark)
§ Primary atibody against human nuclear antigen (HNA, EMD Millipore MAB1281, Massachusetts, USA)
§ Mouse on Mouse Polymer IHC Kit (Abcam ab127055, Cambridge, UK)
§ TRIzol® RNase inhibitor (Life Technologies, Invitrogen, Carlsbad, California, USA)
§ NanoDrop ND-1000 spectrophotometer (Thermo Scientific, Wilmington, Delaware, USA)
§ High Capacity RNA-to-cDNA Kit (Applied Biosystems, Vilnius, Lithuania)
§ T100 Thermal Cycler (Bio-Rad, California, USA)
§ PowerUp SYBR Green Master Mix (Applied Biosystems, Carlsbad, California, USA)
§ StepOnePlus (Applied Biosystems, Carlsbad, California, USA)
§ GraphPad Prism 7 (San Diego, California, USA)