title: Stochastic model of human granulocyte-macrophage progenitor cell proliferation and differentiation. II. Validation of the model.
abstract: In the accompanying paper we constructed a model for the proliferation and differentiation of granulocyte-macrophage progenitor cells in response to the specific proliferation/differentiation stimulus granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating activity (gm-CSA). Here we have tested the model without altering the model parameters, which were estimated on the basis of two types of experiment (clone number versus gm-CSA dose-response curves and clone size distributions with maximal gm-CSA) by using these parameters to simulate additional independent experiments. These included data from separation experiments in which progenitor cells were separated on a basis of their density and were then tested for their sensitivity to gm-CSA and their proliferative capacity. In addition, other sets of experimental data (e.g., mean clone size versus time and colony versus gm-CSA dose-response curves and colony-to-cluster ratios) were also examined to detect whether the mathematical model provides an adequate representation of the data. The model gave a successful simulation of all experimental data.
mesh_terms: D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002455:Cell Division; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D006098:Granulocytes; D006410:Hematopoiesis; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D006801:Humans; D008264:Macrophages; D008954:Models, Biological; D013269:Stochastic Processes