## Abstract Single cells from developing two day granulocytic bone marrow colonies were transfered in agar cultures. After three to five days, 48 of 239 transfered single cells had transformed to single macrophages or proliferated to form aggregates of pure macrophages or mixed macrophageβgranulocy
Endotoxin-induced size change in bone marrow progenitors of granulocytes and macrophages
β Scribed by D. Metcalf; J. W. Wilson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1976
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 726 KB
- Volume
- 89
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9541
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
Injection of 5 ΞΌg endotoxin to adult C~57~BL mice caused a marked increase in the sedimentation velocity of granulocytic and macrophage progenitor (colonyβforming) cells in the bone marrow. This change was maximal two days after injection and was not accompanied by corresponding changes in total marrow nucleated cell populations. The endotoxinβinduced shift was not dependent on the presence of the thymus but did not occur in mice challenged after preinjection with endotoxin. No changes in buoyant density, cell cycle status, pattern of differentiation and responsiveness of granulocytic and macrophage progenitor cells were observed after the injection of endotoxin. The increased sedimentation velocity of progenitor cells appears to indicate an increase in cell volume but the mechanisms involved have not been identified.
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