title: Dissecting the hematopoietic microenvironment. VII. The production of an autostimulatory factor as well as a CSF by unstimulated murine marrow fibroblasts.
abstract: Purified normal murine bone marrow-derived fibroblasts were shown to produce a factor that stimulates the in vitro growth of fibroblastic colony-forming unit (CFU-F) colonies. Conditioned medium from the purified fibroblasts (F-CM) also stimulated pure marrow fibroblasts themselves. Analysis of the F-CM detected the presence of macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF), and low levels of interleukin 1 (IL-1) and interleukin 6 (IL-6), but no detectable levels of interleukin 3 (IL-3), interleukin 5 (IL-5), granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), or granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). Macrophages and endothelial cells, freed from other bone marrow components, required the F-CM if no other growth factors were added. We conclude that F-CM contains an autocrine factor, which the evidence suggests is IL-1, for bone marrow fibroblasts, and a paracrine factor (CSF-1) for macrophages and/or endothelial cells.
authors.affiliation: 163 Hospital, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Z J
authors.initials: ZJ
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Q R
authors.initials: QR
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: I K
authors.initials: IK
authors.lastname: McNiece
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Wolf
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000378:metabolism*; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D003470:Culture Media; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000378:metabolism; D006410:Hematopoiesis; D051379:Mice; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology
chemical_list: D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors; D003470:Culture Media