Faculty Research 1980 - 1989

Analysis of the hematopoietic effects of new dominant spotting (W) mutations of the mouse. I. Influence upon hematopoietic stem cells.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1983

Keywords

Animal, Bone-Marrow: cy, tr, Colony-Forming-Units-Assay, Erythrocyte-Indices, Hematopoiesis, Hematopoietic-Stem-Cells: cy, Homozygote, Leukocyte-Count, Mice, Mice-Mutant-Strains: bl, ge, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-NON-P-H-S, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-P-H-S

First Page

452

Last Page

460

JAX Source

Exp-Hematol. 1983 Jul; 11(6):452-60.

Grant

AM25305, AM27726, CA18640

Abstract

Mice carrying two mutant W alleles usually have severe macrocytic anemias which result from deficiencies of hematopoietic stem cells (CFUs) (1). Anemic W39/W39 and W41/W41 homozygotes (2) have deficiencies in the numbers of femoral stem cells which correspond to the severities of their anemias. The non-anemic W44/W44 homozygote (2) has a few stem cells as the W41/W41 mouse. Nevertheless, bone marrow implants from W44/W44 donors cure the anemias of W/Wv recipients while implants from anemic W39/W39 and W41/W41 donors do not. The peripheral hematologic differences between W41/W41 and W44/W44 homozygotes probably arise from qualitative differences intrinsic to their stem cells rather than from extrinsic hematopoietic factors. The hematopoietic environments of all three W homozygotes are relatively normal in that they support normal erythropoiesis when injected with congenic +/+ marrow. Even non-anemic W44/W44 recipients are repopulated with +/+ donor red cells, indicating that W44/W44 stem cells are at a disadvantage when competing with normal counterparts.

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