title: Novel role of interleukin 7 in myelopoiesis: stimulation of primitive murine hematopoietic progenitor cells.
abstract: Interleukin 7 (IL-7) has been demonstrated to be an important regulator of the growth of B and T cell precursors as well as mature T cells, whereas IL-7 has been reported to have no direct myeloproliferative effects. Here we show that IL-7 potently and directly enhances colony stimulating factor-induced myeloid colony formation from Lin-Sca-1+ murine bone marrow progenitor cells, increasing the cloning frequency up to ninefold and cell numbers up to 50-fold, without affecting their ability to differentiate along the myeloid lineages In contrast, IL-7 has no effect on proliferation of committed Lin- myeloid progenitors. Thus, in addition to its established lymphopoietic potential, this study implicates a novel role of IL-7 in early myelopoiesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: F W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Jacobsen
authors.forename: O P
authors.initials: OP
authors.lastname: Veiby
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Skjønsberg
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Jacobsen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000187:drug effects; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology* / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D007377:Interleukin-3 / Q000494:pharmacology; D015851:Interleukin-7 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000166:cytology* / Q000187:drug effects; D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors; D007377:Interleukin-3; D015851:Interleukin-7; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor; D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor