Abstract
Abstract We have previously reported the development of in vivo functional assays for primitive human hematopoietic cells based on their ability to repopulate the bone marrow (BM) of severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) and nonobese diabetic/SCID (NOD/SCID) mice following intravenous transplantation. Accumulated data from gene marking and cell purification experiments indicate that the engrafting cells (defined as SCID-repopulating cells or SRC) are biologically distinct from and more primitive than most cells that can be assayed in vitro. Here we demonstrate through limiting dilution analysis that the NOD/SCID xenotransplant model provides a quantitative assay for SRC. Using this assay, the frequency of SRC in cord blood (CB) was found to be 1 in 9.3 × 105 cells. This was significantly higher than the frequency of 1 SRC in 3.0 × 106 adult BM cells or 1 in 6.0 × 106 mobilized peripheral blood (PB) cells from normal donors. Mice transplanted with limiting numbers of SRC were engrafted with both lymphoid and multilineage myeloid human cells. This functional assay is currently the only available method for quantitative analysis of human hematopoietic cells with repopulating capacity. Both CB and mobilized PB are increasingly being used as alternative sources of hematopoietic stem cells in allogeneic transplantation. Thus, the findings reported here will have important clinical as well as biologic implications.
Keywords
HaematopoiesisBiologyBone marrowSevere combined immunodeficiencyStem cellCord bloodTransplantationImmunologyNodMyeloidCancer researchMolecular biologyIn vivoCell biologyMedicineInternal medicine
MeSH Terms
AdultAnimalsBiological AssayBlood Cell CountBone Marrow CellsCell DifferentiationFetal BloodHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationHematopoietic Stem CellsHumansMiceMiceSCID
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- 1997
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- 89
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- 11
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- 3919-3924
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Jean Wang,
Monica Doedens,
John E. Dick
(1997).
Primitive Human Hematopoietic Cells Are Enriched in Cord Blood Compared With Adult Bone Marrow or Mobilized Peripheral Blood as Measured by the Quantitative In Vivo SCID-Repopulating Cell Assay.
Blood
, 89
(11)
, 3919-3924.
https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.v89.11.3919
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- DOI
- 10.1182/blood.v89.11.3919
- PMID
- 9166828