ISSN:
0021-9541
Keywords:
Life and Medical Sciences
;
Cell & Developmental Biology
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Biology
,
Medicine
Notes:
Sera from different strains of mice injected with endotoxin induced clones (D+) from a cultured line of myeloid leukemic cells to undergo normal differentiation to mature granulocytes and macrophages. Other clones (D-) derived from the same cell line were not inducible by these sera to undergo normal cell differentiation. Sera from the same strains of mice that had not been injected with endotoxin, increased the cloning efficiency of D+ and D - clones but did not induce differentiation. Endotoxin serum induced differentiation in D+ cells at dilutions up to 1:64, but increased the cloning efficiency of these cells at dilutions up to 1:2048. The end point of the dilution of endotoxin serum that induced differentiation in D+ cells, was also the end point that induced the formation of colonies with differentiation from normal bone marrow cells. The results indicate that serum from endotoxin treated animals can serve as a good in vivo source to induce normal differentiation in D+ myeloid leukemic cells; that the progeny of a single leukemic cell was induced to undergo differentiation to both macrophages and granulocytes; that endotoxin serum contained two activities, one that increased cloning efficiency and the other that induced cell differentiation; and that the same material in endotoxin serum induced cell differentiation in normal and leukemic cells.
Additional Material:
4 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcp.1040830203
