title: Nude mice bearing human CSF-producing tumor: analysis of hemopoietic factor(s) acting on primitive stem cells.
abstract: Previously, we serially transplanted tumors that produced colony-stimulating factor (CSF) into nude mice, who developed marked granulocytosis along with tumor growth; their leukocyte counts reaching approximately one million per cu mm. The numbers of CFU-GM, CFU-E, CFU-Meg, CFU-S and BFU-E were increased in nude mice bearing CSF-producing tumor. We here report that tumor-conditioned medium (TCM) derived from the CSF-producing tumors had colony-stimulating activity (CSA) and burst-promoting activity (BPA) when normal murine spleen cells as well as normal human bone marrow cells were the target cells. The activity of TCM supported multilineage colony formation in 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)-treated mouse spleen cells, in which only the primitive population of stem cells was reserved. No interleukin-3 (IL-3) activity was detected in TCM when assayed using the IL-3 dependent cell lines. We conclude that the factor in TCM acts on pluripotent stem cells and on the early progenitor stage of various cell lineages. It is distinct from IL-3.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D005260:Female; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D006801:Humans; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D007962:Leukocytes / Q000166:cytology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D051379:Mice; D008819:Mice, Nude; D008875:Middle Aged; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D014183:Transplantation, Heterologous
chemical_list: D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors