title: Recovery of hemopoietic stromal progenitor cells after lethal total-body irradiation and bone marrow transplantation in mice.
abstract: The recovery of fibroblastic colony-forming units (CFU-F) in murine bone marrow hemopoietic stroma was studied during eighteen months after 9 Gy lethal total-body irradiation and reconstitution with syngeneic bone marrow cells. After an initial depletion, CFU-F numbers increased from 10% of normal values at three months to 40% at 18 months after treatment, irrespective of graft size and presence of CFU-F in the graft. Fourteen months after treatment 35% of all CFU-F present in the recipients' bone marrow was donor-derived independent of graft size. When mice were treated with high-dose lipopolysaccharide-W three months after irradiation and bone marrow transplantation, CFU-F numbers decreased to hardly detectable levels within one day, and then recovered to normal numbers four weeks later--whereas radiation control mice still had low CFU-F numbers. These data suggest that after lethal total-body irradiation the stroma still contained viable fibroblastic cells that had lost their in vitro colony-forming capacity as a result of radiation damage. In consequence there was no need for replacement of these fibroblastic cells by donor-derived or host-derived CFU-F. Only depletion of CFU-F from the bone marrow, as was induced with lipopolysaccharide, stimulated repopulation of the stroma with colony-forming fibroblastic cells.
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Piersma
authors.forename: K G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Brockbank
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Ploemacher
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Ottenheim
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000187:drug effects; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000166:cytology / Q000528:radiation effects / Q000637:transplantation; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000528:radiation effects; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D011828:Radiation Chimera; D013997:Time Factors; D014185:Transplantation, Isogeneic
chemical_list: D008070:Lipopolysaccharides