title: The in vitro growth of murine high proliferative potential-colony forming cells is not enhanced by growth in a low oxygen atmosphere.
abstract: The growth of primitive murine hematopoietic progenitors, high proliferative potential colony-forming cells (HPP-CFC), has been reported to be improved in low O2 tension cultures. In this report we investigated the growth of HPP-CFC stimulated by combinations of interleukin (IL)-1, IL-6, kit-ligand (KL), granulocyte (G) colony-stimulating factor (CSF), macrophage-CSF (M-CSF), granulocyte-macrophage-CSF (GM-CSF) and IL-3 in clonal cultures incubated at 7% or 21% O2 tension. Neither the numbers of HPP-CFC colonies nor the number of cells per HPP-CFC colony differed significantly between cultures grown under 7% or 21% O2 tension. The mean number of cells per HPP-CFC colony was found to range from 3.9 x 10(4) to 2.2 x 10(5). The smallest HPP-CFC colonies were stimulated by the cytokine combination IL-1 + IL-6 + KL, whereas the largest colonies were stimulated by a combination of all seven cytokines tested. The growth of erythroid colonies from murine or human bone marrow did, however, show some enhancement when cultured at a lower O2 tension. These results demonstrate that the growth of murine HPP-CFC was not compromised when cultured at ambient O2 concentration.
authors.affiliation: James Ewing Laboratory of Developmental Hematopoiesis, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021.
authors.forename: M O
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Muench
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gasparetto
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Moore
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D016207:Cytokines / Q000494:pharmacology; D004920:Erythropoiesis / Q000187:drug effects; D004921:Erythropoietin / Q000494:pharmacology; D005260:Female; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology* / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D010100:Oxygen / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D016207:Cytokines; D004921:Erythropoietin; D010100:Oxygen