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  • 1
    Publication Date: 1979-07-01
    Description: Endotoxin was detected in all erythropoietin preparations tested and was removed from four lots, without loss of erythropoietic activity, by adsorption with limulus amebocyte lysate. Comparison of adsorbed (endotoxin-depleted) and nonadsorbed (endotoxin-containing) erythropoietin preparations demonstrated significant inhibition of CFU- e and BFU-e in vitro by nonadsorbed erythropoietin at concentrations higher than 0.25 U/ml and 2.0 U/ml, respectively. CFU-e and BFU-e were inhibited significantly by readdition in vitro of 10(-5)-10(-3) mug of endotoxin per unit of limulus-adsorbed erythropoietin. Administration of saline or 6 U of nonadsorbed or adsorbed erythropoietin twice a day for 4 days of CF1 mice resulted in reticulocyte counts of 2.1%, 9.9%, and 15.9%, respectively. Nonadsorbed erythropoietin resulted in a 29% decrease in erythropoiesis, a 42% decrease in CFU-e, and a 16% increase in granulopoiesis in the marrow, whereas adsorbed erythropoietin caused a 28% increase in erythropoiesis, no significant change in CFU-e and a 19% decrease in granulopoiesis in the marrow. Both preparations resulted in marked increases in splenic erythropoiesis and granulopoiesis. The effects of adsorbed erythropoietin are similar to those produced following stimulation of hematopoiesis by endogenous erythropoietin. Hemopoietic changes induced by nonadsorbed erythropoietin in vivo and in vitro are affected substantially by contamination of the erythropoietin preparations with endotoxin.
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 1992-04-15
    Description: Calcium and calmodulin (CaM) are known to play critical roles in controlling cell cycle progression in a variety of cells. We observed that the CaM antagonist, N-(6-aminohexyl)-5-chloro-1- naphthalensulfonamide hydrochloride (W-7), inhibited 3H-thymidine incorporation into DNA of factor-dependent hematopoietic cells. To delineate the role of CaM in proliferation of hematopoietic cells, we have investigated intracellular distribution of specific CaM-binding proteins (CaM-BPs) in response to hematopoietic growth factors in FDC- P1, 32D, NFS-60, and T1165 cells. Each of these cell lines, when deprived of cytokines for 16 to 18 hours, essentially ceased proliferation, even in the presence of fetal calf serum. Concomitant to the cessation of proliferation, there was a dramatic depletion of a specific CaM-BP of about 68 Kd in both their cytoplasmic and nuclear fractions. Within 6 to 12 hours of reexposure to proliferation-specific cytokines, there was a restoration of the nuclear as well as cytoplasmic 68-Kd CaM-BP. Furthermore, such an induction and nuclear localization of the 68-Kd CaM-BP by the cytokines coincided temporally with the progression of synchronized FDC-P1 cells from G1 to S phase. By contrast, colony-stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1)-dependent bone marrow macrophages and BAC-1 cells did not exhibit 68-Kd CaM-BP in the nuclear or cytoplasmic fractions. These studies suggest that while hematopoietic growth factor granulocyte CSF-, granulocyte-macrophage CSF-, interleukin-3 (IL-3)-, or IL-6-, whose receptors are members of the hematopoietin receptor family, induced cell proliferation is associated with a common mechanism involving nuclear localization of the 68-Kd CaM-BP, the CSF-1-induced proliferation seems to involve 68- Kd CaM-BP-independent pathways.
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 1989-03-01
    Description: A synergistic factor that is produced by the human bladder carcinoma cell line 5637 (SF-1) stimulates primitive bone marrow progenitor cells, termed high proliferative-potential colony-forming cells (HPP- CFC), in the presence of an optimal dose of macrophage colony stimulating factor (CSF-1). Recent reports have demonstrated that interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1) is identical to hemopoietin 1 and have suggested that IL-1 is the synergistic factor present in 5637 conditioned medium (cm). We have compared the ability of recombinant human IL-1 alpha and partially purified preparations of SF-1 to synergize with optimal doses of CSF-1 to stimulate HPP-CFC. In all experiments performed the numbers of HPP-CFC colonies formed with IL-1 were significantly less than with SF-1. Replating experiments demonstrated that SF-1 plus CSF-1 generated HPP-CFC (responsive to IL-3 plus CSF-1); however, IL-1 plus CSF-1 resulted in no generation of HPP- CFC. Multiple factor combinations of IL-1 and SF-1 with G-CSF, GM-CSF, and CSF-1 also resulted in less HPP-CFC colony formation in cultures containing IL-1 compared with SF-1. Incubation of SF-1 with an antibody to IL-6 had no effect on HPP-CFC colony formation and IL-6 did not synergize with IL-1 plus CSF-1 or SF-1 plus CSF-1. These data suggest the presence of a factor in 5637 cm, which is distinct from G-CSF, GM- CSF, and IL-6, which synergizes with IL-1 to produce the SF-1 effect.
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 1980-12-01
    Description: The clinical application of soft agar cloning techniques for granulocyte-macrophage stem cells (CFU-C) has resulted in a number of contradictory reports that may in part be due to an inadequate data base. Growth of murine CFU-C is more reproducible and less variable than that of human CFU-C. We utilized in vivo hydroxyurea suicide of murine marrow CFU-C to address the question of how many experiments are needed to detect a specific difference with a p of less than 0.05. In 66 experiments the mean marrow CFU-C hydroxyurea kill was 23.3%; 6–9 separate experiments were necessary to detaect differences of 25%-30%. In order to be sure that a 25%-30% difference is not present, 15–21 experiments were required. Using a Dec-20 computer, 1000 samples of sample size 3, 4, or 10 were drawn from the 66 experiments; it was found that with 3 experiments and a true value of 23%, the actually observed value was below 10%, 17% of the time, and was over 40% in 10% of the samplings. In a smaller number of experiments similar results were obtained analyzing 3HTdR suicide of pluripotent stem cells and CFU- C. These data could provide a base from which to judge the validity of studies utilizing the CFU-C technique.
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 1987-04-01
    Description: Hematopoietic regulatory factors produced by adherent (stromal) cells in long-term murine bone marrow cultures have been investigated. Using an in situ double layer agar overlay system, we demonstrated that exposure of the stromal cells to 1,100-rad irradiation increased their activities in stimulating colony formation of FDC-P1, an interleukin 3 (IL 3)-responsive cell line. The colony-stimulating activities (CSAs) of the irradiated stroma also stimulated normal marrow cells to form granulocyte-macrophage, megakaryocyte, and mixed lineage colonies. Addition of the lectin pokeweed mitogen to the irradiated stroma increased the level of CSAs. The FDC-P1 CSA of the irradiated stroma was inhibited by antibodies directed against murine granulocyte- macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) but not by those against murine IL 3. Stromal-derived CSA for marrow cells was also partially blocked by anti-GM-CSF antibodies, probably reflecting the presence of other CSAs such as CSF-1. This latter growth factor has been found to be present in conditioned media from Dexter stroma, but levels are not increased after irradiation or lectin exposure. Partially purified GM- CSF, like IL 3, stimulated FDC-P1 proliferation and granulocyte, macrophage, and megakaryocyte colony formation. These results indicate that the major terminal differentiating hormone elicited by irradiation or lectin exposure of murine marrow stromal cells is GM-CSF. This growth factor, along with CSF-1, can account for the differentiated progeny produced in this system: macrophages, granulocytes, and megakaryocytes.
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    Publication Date: 1987-09-01
    Description: The effects of adenosine diphosphate (ADP) ribosylation inhibitors on hematopoietic growth factor-induced proliferation were examined. Significant inhibition of interleukin-3 (IL-3), colony-stimulating factor 1, and lung conditioned media-induced clonal agar growth of normal murine hematopoietic cells by 10 mmol/L nicotinamide (NAM), 10 mmol/L 3-aminobenzamide (3AB), and 5 mmol/L N1-methylnicotinamide (1MN) was noted. Nicotinic acid, a related compound that does not inhibit ADP ribosylation, failed to inhibit the growth factor-mediated proliferation. NAM (10 mmol/L), 3AB (10 mmol/L), and 1MN (5 mmol/L) also prevented IL-3 and phorbol ester-stimulated 3H-thymidine incorporation into the IL-3-responsive FDC-P1 cell line. Exposure of FDC-P1 cells to 10 mmol/L NAM led to a significant decrease in nuclear poly-(ADP-ribose) levels. Exposure of FDC-P1 cells to 5 mmol/L 1MN did not affect the interaction of the phorbol ester receptor, protein kinase-C (PK-C), with the cell membrane as determined by assay of phorbol ester binding in cytosol and membrane preparations. Nor did it affect the catalytic activity of PK-C as determined by assaying the in vitro phosphorylation of histone H1 by cytosolic kinase preparations from FDC-P1 as well as EL4 thymoma cells. 1MN markedly enhanced the inhibitory effects of phorbol esters on DNA synthesis of EL4 cells even at concentrations (1.25 mmol/L) that had no effects on DNA synthesis in the absence of phorbol esters. Our findings demonstrate that (a) active ADP ribosylation inhibitors interfere with growth factor-induced proliferation of murine hematopoietic cells and (b) the inhibition occurs at a step that follows the activation and translocation of PK-C and is more closely linked to DNA synthesis.
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  • 7
    Publication Date: 1985-08-01
    Description: An adherent cell line, termed TC-1, has been isolated from long-term liquid culture of murine marrow cells by repeated exposure of the adherent cells to 0.1% trypsin. This is an alkaline phosphatase- positive cell line showing variable staining with acid phosphatase and alpha-naphthyl acetate esterase. On electron microscopy, the cells have moderate amounts of rough endoplasmic reticulum and variable numbers of polyribosomes. Some cells contain large clusters of laked glycogen particles. Intermediate junctions are present between some cells. Conditioned medium from this cell line produced from 384 to 638 units of CSF-1 per milliliter by radioimmunoassay and a CSF-1-dependent synergistic activity, which stimulates giant macrophage colony formation of marrow cells in soft agar. The conditioned medium also stimulates 3H-TdR incorporation by marrow cells in liquid culture and induces secondary adherent cell lines. The growth factor(s) produced by the TC-1 stromal cell line may be important in the regulation of early stages of hematopoietic differentiation. Two subclones, TC-1-C-11 and TC-1-C-3, have been isolated from passage 25 of the TC-1 cells by a penicylinder separation technique. The TC-1-C-11 is phenotypically like the parent TC-1 line and produces macrophage growth factors. The TC-1-C- 3 grows as an epithelioid monolayer with visible junctions among adjacent cells under phase contrast microscopy. This subclone produces retrovirus and is capable of providing anchorage support for hematopoietic stem cells. The TC-1 cell line and its subclones may provide models for the control of early stem cell proliferation and differentiation.
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  • 8
    Publication Date: 1984-01-01
    Description: Lithium has previously been observed to stimulate in vitro Dexter culture hemopoiesis with increases in granulocytes, megakaryocytes, and pluripotent stem cells (CFU-S). In the present study, a two-phase murine Dexter culture system was established to study the mechanism of lithium-mediated stem cell stimulation. Different lots of horse sera or fetal calf sera were found to have markedly different effects on Dexter culture growth; given the appropriate sera supplementation, supernatant cells from Dexter cultures established from C57BL/6J mice 3 wk previously were free of stromal-forming capacity, but had stem cells and could grow on 900–950 R irradiated stroma. Conversely, in vitro irradiation (900–950 R) of 3-wk cultures resulted in a stem-cell-free adherent monolayer that could support growth for up to 9 wk in culture. The stroma from Dexter cultures preexposed to lithium chloride (1.0 mmole/liter) for 3 wk, irradiated (900 R), and then refed with 3-wk Dexter supernatant cells has an enhanced capacity to support cell production, CFU-S, and probably granulocyte-macrophage colony-forming cell (GM-CFU-C) production, as compared to stroma not preexposed to lithium. Lithium carryover was ruled out in these experiments. These data indicate that lithium stimulates CFU-S and in vitro granulopoiesis by an indirect effect on a radioresistant adherent stromal cell.
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  • 9
    Publication Date: 1980-10-01
    Description: Prompted by previous reports that in certain patients with aplastic anemia, cell-mediated autoimmune suppression of myeloid stem cell proliferation may be demonstrable in vitro, we studied the effects of bone marrow lymphocytes from 18 patients with myeloid aplasia on the proliferation of committed granulocytic-monocytic progenitor cells (CFU- C). When assayed in soft agar cultures, marrow suspensions from 10 patients with aplastic anemia contained significantly fewer viable CFU- C than similar cell preparations from control subjects. To deplete marrow cell suspensions of lymphocytes, we employed rabbit anti-human thymocyte serum (ATS), which after multiple adsorptions exhibited marked cytotoxicity for human B and T lymphocytes but had negligible effect on normal CFU-C proliferation. Preincubation of marrow samples from 12 patients with ATS and complement resulted in no inhibition or enhancement of CFU-C growth. In further experiments, marrow cells from 8 patients were incubated with marrow from control subjects prior to CFU-C culture. No suppression of donor CFU-C proliferation was observed in any of these studies, and in 4 cocultures, mixture of the 2 marrow suspensions resulted in stimulation of CFU-C growth. Using these assays, we detected no evidence of cell-mediated inhibition of CFU-C proliferation in any of the 18 patients that we evaluated. Our data support the conclusion that in the majority of patients with aplastic anemia, an absolute deficiency of hemopoietic stem cells is present within the marrow that does not appear to be effected or sustained by suppressor lymphocytes. Whether the reduction of viable stem cells is the cause or the consequence of the process that leads to marrow failure remains unknown.
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    Publication Date: 1980-12-01
    Description: The clinical application of soft agar cloning techniques for granulocyte-macrophage stem cells (CFU-C) has resulted in a number of contradictory reports that may in part be due to an inadequate data base. Growth of murine CFU-C is more reproducible and less variable than that of human CFU-C. We utilized in vivo hydroxyurea suicide of murine marrow CFU-C to address the question of how many experiments are needed to detect a specific difference with a p of less than 0.05. In 66 experiments the mean marrow CFU-C hydroxyurea kill was 23.3%; 6–9 separate experiments were necessary to detaect differences of 25%-30%. In order to be sure that a 25%-30% difference is not present, 15–21 experiments were required. Using a Dec-20 computer, 1000 samples of sample size 3, 4, or 10 were drawn from the 66 experiments; it was found that with 3 experiments and a true value of 23%, the actually observed value was below 10%, 17% of the time, and was over 40% in 10% of the samplings. In a smaller number of experiments similar results were obtained analyzing 3HTdR suicide of pluripotent stem cells and CFU- C. These data could provide a base from which to judge the validity of studies utilizing the CFU-C technique.
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