title: Erythroid colony formation by fetal rat liver and spleen cells in vitro: inhibition by a low relative molecular mass component of fetal spleen.
abstract: Liver and spleen hematopoietic cell suspensions from 20-day-old-fetal rats were fractionated on Percoll gradients. A granulocyte-rich splenic fraction inhibited CFUe production by cultures of a CFUe-enriched liver fraction, and by cultures of unfractionated liver and spleen hematopoietic cells. Conditioned medium from the spleen cell fraction contained an inhibitor of relative molecular mass, Mr, 25-35 x 10(3). The sensitivity of spleen cells to the inhibitor varied with the age of the fetus from which they were derived (20-day-old less than 18-and 19-day-old). No such age-dependence was found for liver cells. The inhibitor affects cycling CFUe, blocks the lethal effect of AraC, does not appear to be lineage-specific and its influence can be reversed by washing.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physiologie Animale, UFR Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, Reims, France.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Nagel
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nagel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division / Q000502:physiology; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004920:Erythropoiesis / Q000502:physiology*; D005865:Gestational Age; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D008099:Liver / Q000166:cytology / Q000196:embryology / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013154:Spleen / Q000166:cytology / Q000196:embryology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*