title: Characterization of peripheral blood CD34+ progenitor cells mobilized with chemotherapy and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor.
abstract: Peripheral blood (PB) mononuclear cells mobilized with chemotherapy and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) were enriched in CD34+ cells; aliquots were seeded in long-term cultures (LTC) on bone marrow (BM)-derived stromal layers and in liquid cultures containing various growth factors. The final recovery of PB CD34+ cells was similar to normal BM controls, and no difference was found in the expression of CD33 and CD13 antigens; a lower number of CD34+/HLA-DR- cells was found in PB with respect to BM samples (p < 0.001). PB cells sustained hematopoiesis in LTC at least as long as BM cells. At week 3 and 4, PB total mononuclear cell (MC) and CD34(+)-selected cell cultures showed a higher nonadherent cell recovery compared to the respective BM controls (p = 0.05 and p < 0.01). The liquid culture of PB CD34+ cells in the presence of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), interleukin-3 (IL-3), and stem cell factor (SCF) resulted in a marked and long-lasting increase of colony-forming units-granulocyte/macrophage (CFU-GM). Taken together, our data suggest that chemotherapy and G-CSF-primed cells contain a considerable number of both committed and early precursors, accounting for the rapid hematopoietic recovery observed after their reinfusion following myeloablative chemotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Teofili
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Iovino
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sica
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pierelli
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Menichella
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: De Stefano
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rumi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Leone
mesh_terms: D015703:Antigens, CD / Q000032:analysis*; D018952:Antigens, CD34; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000276:immunology; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D002455:Cell Division; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D015703:Antigens, CD; D018952:Antigens, CD34; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor