title: Noncycling state of peripheral blood progenitor cells mobilized by granulocyte colony-stimulating factor and other cytokines.
abstract: Incubation with high doses of tritiated thymidine in vitro was used to determine the percent of progenitor cells in the S phase of the cell cycle. Peripheral blood (PB), bone marrow (BM), and spleen populations from mice injected with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) at 5 micrograms/day for 5 days and BM cells from uninjected littermates were assayed. Although the percentage of progenitor cells in S phase in the marrow (47% +/- 5%) and spleen (52% +/- 9%) was increased significantly in G-CSF-treated mice, only a small proportion of PB progenitor cells (PBPC) were in S phase (7% +/- 4%). In normal human subjects injected with G-CSF at 5 or 10 micrograms/kg/d, the proportions of PB myeloid (-1 +/- 4%) and erythroid (0% +/- 8%) progenitor cells in S phase were very low compared with the proportion of myeloid progenitor cells in S phase in normal BM (34% +/- 10%). Similarly, the large majority of steady-state PBPC and PBPC mobilized by interleukin-3 in combination with either granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor or G-CSF were also found not to be in S phase. Experiments indicated that the low percentages of PBPC in S phase were not ascribable either to inhibitory elements in the blood or to reduced responsiveness to growth factors.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Research Unit, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Metcalf
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001773:Blood Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D002453:Cell Cycle / Q000187:drug effects*; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D006801:Humans; D007377:Interleukin-3 / Q000494:pharmacology; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C
chemical_list: D007377:Interleukin-3; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor