title: Proliferation and degeneration of circulating CFU-GM in 15 adult normal subjects. Can any ontogenetic relationship be deduced from these data?
abstract: We studied, in 15 normal adults, the "in vitro" proliferation and differentiation of circulating CFU-GM, in order to assess their implication in the processes that regulate the dynamic equilibrium of granulopoiesis, analogous to bone marrow CFU-GM, and to deduce by their growth behaviour the ontogenetic relationship between CFU-GM subpopulations in the circulating and bone marrow compartments respectively. We found that "in vitro" proliferation of circulating CFU-GM predominates over their degeneration. We believe circulating CFU-GM and bone marrow CFU-GM are not implicated in granulopoiesis regulation in the same manner, and that circulating CFU-GM are more immature than bone marrow CFU-GM when taking proliferation and GM-CSF response into account. One cannot ignore the hypothesis that cells that "in vivo" are quiescent, are recruited "in vitro" with GM-CSF. Finally we would like to draw attention to the parallelism between CFU-GM classification in types 1 and 2 using monoclonal antibodies to track surface antigens, and our classification obtained by using a new mathematical model that takes the "birth" and "dead" of cellular aggregates into account.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Medicina Interna e Terapia Medica, Università di Pavia, I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Matteo.
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authors.lastname: Ghizzi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D005260:Female; D006098:Granulocytes / Q000166:cytology*; D006801:Humans; D008264:Macrophages / Q000166:cytology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors