title: Ex vivo culture of peripheral blood CD34+ cells: effects of hematopoietic growth factors on production of neutrophilic precursors.
abstract: A major potential application for ex vivo culture of hematopoietic progenitor cells is the treatment of cytopenia following high-dose chemotherapy and hematopoietic transplantation. We have previously postulated that infusion of a sufficient number of neutrophil postprogenitor cells generated by ex vivo culture of CD34+ cells may be able to abrogate neutropenia. In this article, we describe further development of an efficient stromal-free, cytokine-dependent, static culture system for generation of these cells. Our previous studies indicated that maximal production of nucleated cells and myeloid progenitor cells from PB CD34+ cells occurred with multiple hematopoietic growth factor (HGF), notably the 6-HGF combination of interleukin (IL)-1, IL-3, IL-6, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), granulocyte-macrophage-CSF (GM-CSF), and stem cell factor (SCF). In the present study, we determine the contribution of each of these 6 HGF in generation of neutrophilic precursors. SCF, G-CSF, and IL-3 were found to be the most important HGF for production of neutrophilic cells. The 4-HGF combination of IL-3, IL-6, G-CSF, and SCF was optimized by performing dose-response experiments and shown to be as potent as 6 HGF for production of nascent CFU-GM and neutrophilic precursors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Miyazaki Prefectural Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Makino
authors.forename: D N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Haylock
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dowse
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Trimboli
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Niutta
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: To
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Juttner
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Simmons
mesh_terms: D018952:Antigens, CD34; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects; D016207:Cytokines / Q000494:pharmacology; D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D019650:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Mobilization; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: D018952:Antigens, CD34; D016207:Cytokines; D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors