title: Identification of hematopoietic cell populations from the dermal papillae of human hair follicles.
abstract: Hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) activity has been identified from the hair follicles (HFs) in mice; however, it has not been identified in human HFs. We used immunohistochemistry and flow cytometry to identify cultured dermal papilla (DP) cells expressing CD45 to test for hematopoietic activity in colony-forming assays of granulocyte/macrophage hematopoietic progenitors (CFU-GM). Occasional CD45-positive cells were detected in cultured DP cells. After in vitro stimulation with IL-3, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) for 7 days, about 1% of the cells were CD45-positive by flow cytometry analysis, an fifty-fold expansion in cell numbers. We further examined whether mesenchymal stem/progenitor cells reside in human dermal papillae. Cultured DP papilla cells incubated with monoclonal antibodies to remove the CD45 positive cells were induced into multilineage differentiation with the formation of CFU-GM. Our findings preliminarily indicate that human dermal papilla contain at least a CD45-positive hematopoietic cell population and a mesenchymal stem/progenitor cell population.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Combined Injury, State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, Department of Preventive Medicine, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing City, China. shicm@sina.com
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mai
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015703:Antigens, CD / Q000032:analysis; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D018859:Hair Follicle / Q000166:cytology*; D006801:Humans; D017493:Leukocyte Common Antigens / Q000032:analysis; D008297:Male; D012535:Scalp / Q000166:cytology*; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*
chemical_list: D015703:Antigens, CD; D017493:Leukocyte Common Antigens