The expanded fold values of CD45(+) white blood cells and CD34(+), CD133(+), CD34(+)CD38(-), CD133(+)CD38(-), CD34(+)CD133(+), colony-forming and long-term culture-initiating cells at the end of 7-day culture from CD133(+) MPB of hematologic malignancies were 9.4-fold, 5.9-fold, 4.0-fold, 35.8-fold, 21.9-fold, 3.8-fold, 11.8-fold and 6.7-fold, and values from healthy donor CD133(+) MPB were 20.7-fold, 14.5-fold, 8.5-fold, 83.8-fold, 37.3-fold, 6.2-fold, 19.1-fold and 14.6-fold.