title: Serum-free culture of enriched murine haemopoietic stem cells. I: Effect of haemopoietic growth factors on proliferation.
abstract: Using a population of cells highly enriched for multipotential day 12 spleen colony forming cells (CFU-S) (termed the FACS-BM population), and a serum-free culture system, the requirements for development of multipotential cell have been investigated and compared to previous results using serum containing cultures. In both serum-free and serum supplemented cultures interleukin-3 (IL-3) was a potent colony stimulating factor, although it was more effective in serum free conditions. However, colony stimulation by granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and macrophage-colony stimulating factor (M-CSF) was markedly reduced in the absence of serum. Significantly, the ability of interleukin-1 (IL-1) and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) to synergise with these two growth factors was retained in serum-free conditions, indicating that these growth factors act directly on the FACS-BM without serum co-factors. Furthermore synergistic interactions between IL-3 plus IL-1, and IL-3 plus M-CSF were only manifest in serum-free conditions. The significance of these results in relation to the ability of these growth factors to act directly on multipotential cells is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Institut d'Embryologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Nogent-Sur-Marne, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cormier
authors.forename: I L
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Ponting
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Heyworth
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Dexter
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001853:Bone Marrow; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D016895:Culture Media, Serum-Free; D004347:Drug Interactions; D004357:Drug Synergism; D005260:Female; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology; D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D007375:Interleukin-1 / Q000494:pharmacology; D051379:Mice
chemical_list: D016895:Culture Media, Serum-Free; D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors; D007375:Interleukin-1; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor