{"title":"Allogeneic responses of human umbilical cord blood.","authors":"G Risdon, J Gaddy, H E Broxmeyer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human umbilical cord blood (CB) is increasingly used as an alternative to bone marrow as a source of stem and progenitor cells for pediatric patients. We have evaluated the alloreactive potential of cord blood T cells in vitro. Our findings demonstrate that in a primary mixed leukocyte culture CB T cells demonstrate strong proliferative responses to allogeneic stimulation but little to no generation of cytotoxic effector function. Furthermore, restimulation of primary cultures results in a state of proliferative unresponsiveness. Such diminished cytotoxic and proliferative responses may, in part, be related to the low incidence of graft vs. host disease thus far noted in human CB transplants.</p>","PeriodicalId":75604,"journal":{"name":"Blood cells","volume":"20 2-3","pages":"566-70; discussion 571-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18749586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M R Vowels, K Tiedemann, R Lam-Po-Tang, D P Tucker
{"title":"Use of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor in two children treated with cord blood transplantation.","authors":"M R Vowels, K Tiedemann, R Lam-Po-Tang, D P Tucker","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cord blood contains stem cells in amounts similar to or slightly less than those present in a bone marrow collection to be used for bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Too few cord blood transplants (CBT) have yet been performed to define the ability to achieve engraftment and the rate of engraftment. Two cord blood transplants have been performed using granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) to hasten engraftment. Two children, aged 5 and 6 years received a CBT using HLA-identical stem cells collected at the birth of a sibling. One child had X-linked lymphoproliferative disease (XLP), and the other, acute lymphoblastic leukemia in second complete remission. One had an ABO and one an Rh blood group mismatch. Conditioning therapy consisted of cyclophosphamide, melphalan, and antithymocyte globulin or busulphan and cyclophosphamide. Graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis was methotrexate and cyclosporine or cyclosporine. Both children were given GM-CSF at 5 micrograms/kg/day from day 1 until the absolute neutrophil count (ANC) reached 1.0 x 10(9)/L for 3 consecutive days. If this level was not reached by day 14, the dose of GM-CSF was doubled. Both children engrafted rapidly, with ANCs reaching 0.5 x 10(9)/L in 12 and 16 days. Engraftment was confirmed by blood group in both and sex chromosome typing in one. Both children developed mild GVHD localized to skin, which resolved with steroid therapy. The child with XLP was cured and has survived for 34 months; the second child has survived 27 months with normal marrow function but has had a relapse of leukemia.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":75604,"journal":{"name":"Blood cells","volume":"20 2-3","pages":"249-54; discussion 254-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18750393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enrichment for primitive hemopoietic progenitors of marrow cells from 5-fluorouracil-treated mice and normal mice.","authors":"M Ogawa, J P Shih, N Katayama","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Study of the mechanisms regulating stem cells would be significantly facilitated if a purified population of stem cells were available. During the last 4 years, our laboratory has been engaged in enrichment of murine marrow cells for primitive hemopoietic progenitors. We primarily used marrow cells from mice treated with 150 mg/kg of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), and our assay for the primitive progenitors was formation of multilineage colonies supported by a combination of interleukin-3 (IL-3) and IL-6. First, we found that post-5-FU marrow cells with a density of 1.0631-1.0770 g/cm3, negative for lineage-specific markers and positive for Ly-6A/E are routinely enriched for multipotential progenitors by approximately 800-fold. We then observed that J11d.2 and c-kit are additional useful markers for further enrichment of the primitive hemopoietic progenitors. Cell cycle-dormant primitive progenitors are primarily in the J11d.2+ fraction, whereas more mature progenitors are J11d.2-. The primitive progenitors express relatively low levels of c-kit, while more mature, actively cycling progenitors express high levels of c-kit. Combinations of these markers may be useful in enrichment of marrow cells of normal mice for primitive hemopoietic progenitors.</p>","PeriodicalId":75604,"journal":{"name":"Blood cells","volume":"20 1","pages":"7-11; discussion 11-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18990677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adhesion molecules in hematopoietic cells.","authors":"T Kinashi, T A Springer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interaction with stromal cells is known to be crucial for growth and differentiation of hematopoietic cells. To characterize adhesion molecules involved in this interaction, we examined adhesion of a panel of lymphoid, myeloid, and mast cell lines with stromal cells. We found that very late antigen-4 (VLA-4) and vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 (VCAM-1) were major adhesion molecules in lymphoid and myeloid cells, whereas myeloma cells adhered to stromal cells through hyaluronate. We investigated regulation of VLA-4 during differentiation of myeloid cells using a neutrophil precursor cell line, L-G3. Differentiation of neutrophils induced by granulocyte colony-stimulating factor was accompanied with down-regulation of VLA-4. Induced L-G3 cells adhered to stromal cells in proportion to the expression of VLA-4. Mast cells used two mechanisms to adhere to fibroblasts and stromal cells. They adhered to fibronectin through VLA-5 when stimulated with steel factor and also directly to membrane-anchored steel factor through c-kit.</p>","PeriodicalId":75604,"journal":{"name":"Blood cells","volume":"20 1","pages":"25-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18535368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interaction of primitive human myeloid and lymphoid progenitors with the marrow microenvironment.","authors":"P McGlave, C Verfaillie, J Miller","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Primitive human hematopoietic progenitors containing a high proportion of long-term culture-initiating cells (LTCICs) are found in the 34+DR- fraction of bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMMNCs). These progenitors adhere selectively to the 33/66-kD binding domain of fibronectin and to the FN-CHII binding site, unlike more committed progenitors, which adhere less selectively to fibronectin components. These differences in adhesion to stromal components may explain selective homing and release of progenitors at varying levels of differentiation from the marrow compartment. In additional studies, we demonstrate that cultivation of primitive progenitors in a stroma noncontact long-term culture allows both differentiation of primitive progenitors and conservation of LTCICs. These observations (1) demonstrate that expansion of primitive progenitors does not require stromal contact, (2) shed light on the regulatory role of stroma in myeloid differentiation, and (3) suggest strategies for both ex vivo myeloid progenitor expansion and retrovirus gene insertion. Finally, we demonstrate that a natural killer cell population can be derived from primitive hematopoietic progenitors in a modified long-term culture model. Our findings suggest an important role for marrow stroma in lymphoid differentiation from primitive progenitors and in expression of CD2, a lymphoid marker ordinarily associated with passage of T-lymphocyte progenitors through the thymus.</p>","PeriodicalId":75604,"journal":{"name":"Blood cells","volume":"20 1","pages":"121-6; discussion 126-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18988868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gene transfer into hematopoietic stem cells.","authors":"A W Nienhuis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The ability to insert a gene into hematopoietic stem cells and achieve lineage specific expression of the transferred gene within hematopoietic organs following bone marrow transplantation would create the potential to effectively treat many genetic and acquired diseases. The use of retroviral vectors to achieve this purpose has been investigated extensively in animal models and most recently, in humans. In the murine model, about 20-30% of repopulating stem cells can be genetically modified with a retroviral vector. Peripheral blood stem cells, mobilized by cytokine administration in splenectomized animals, are readily transduced and are capable of long-term reconstitution of transplant recipients with genetically modified cells. Similar protocols have been utilized to transduce highly purified stem cells from rhesus monkeys. Although long-term repopulation with cells that persistently express the transferred gene has been achieved, the frequency of cells containing the vector genome is only about 1-2%. Genetic marking of human bone marrow and peripheral blood cells has been utilized to investigate their potential for contributing to long-term reconstitution following autologous transplantation. Future work will focus on improving gene transfer efficiencies for specific therapeutic applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":75604,"journal":{"name":"Blood cells","volume":"20 1","pages":"141-7; discussion 147-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18988869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In vivo polymerization of sickle-cell hemoglobin: a theoretical study.","authors":"V B Makhijani, G R Cokelet","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Several studies on the gelation and oxygenation state of sickle red blood cells have been done under conditions of equilibrium. The kinetics of sickle hemoglobin (HbS) polymerization have also been studied extensively in fully deoxygenated HbS solutions. The issue of the relevance of these investigations to the physiological in vivo situation has not been addressed. Here, we use a theoretical model to compare theoretical equilibrium predictions of HbS polymer concentration and cellular oxygen content, previously validated against equilibrium data, with the corresponding values under physiologic oxygen unloading conditions. We also use the model to simulate polymerization in almost completely deoxygenated sickle erythrocytes, validate the theoretical polymerization curves against published data, and compare them with the corresponding curves from the dynamic oxygen unloading analyses. Our model shows that equilibrium predictions severely overestimate intracellular polymer concentrations and underestimate cellular oxygen content, during the unloading of oxygen. Also, the delay times to significant polymerization in the physiologic situation are substantially longer than the corresponding values measured in completely deoxygenated HbS solutions. These results indicate that in vivo HbS polymerization is strongly influenced by the rate of oxygen desaturation. Equilibrium estimates of intracellular polymer content, or polymerization kinetic data from fully deoxygenated solutions, could be misleading and should be used in the proper perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":75604,"journal":{"name":"Blood cells","volume":"20 1","pages":"169-83; discussion 184-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18988871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P M Lansdorp, W Dragowska, T E Thomas, M T Little, H Mayani
{"title":"Age-related decline in proliferative potential of purified stem cell candidates.","authors":"P M Lansdorp, W Dragowska, T E Thomas, M T Little, H Mayani","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent studies in our laboratory have shown striking differences in the functional properties of candidate hematopoietic stem cells purified from fetal, neonatal, and adult human tissues. These differences include the ability to produce CD34+ cells, the turnover rate, and the fraction of cells that respond to a mixture of cytokines. All these parameters decrease with the age of the cell donor, and some of these observations are summarized here. Extensive qualitative changes in hematopoietic cells from various stages of development should be taken into account in the design of novel therapeutic strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":75604,"journal":{"name":"Blood cells","volume":"20 2-3","pages":"376-80; discussion 380-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18546352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retention and multilineage expression of human hematopoietic stem cells in human-sheep chimeras.","authors":"E D Zanjani, M R Silva, A W Flake","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We have taken advantage of the permissive environment of the preimmune fetus to achieve engraftment of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) from fetal and postnatal human sources in sheep. The resulting chimeric lambs exhibited long-term multilineage (erythroid, myeloid, lymphoid) expression of donor cells that remained responsive to human-specific cytokines. The small size of the fetus allowed the assessment of the engraftment potential of relatively small numbers of highly characterized human HSC populations, while the large size of the chimeric sheep permitted the long-term evaluation of the HSC activity and response in vivo. The human/sheep xenograft may offer a useful large animal model for the assay and long-term study of the human HSC subsets.</p>","PeriodicalId":75604,"journal":{"name":"Blood cells","volume":"20 2-3","pages":"331-8; discussion 338-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18749578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}