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LM Pelus and PS Gentile
Department of Hematopoietic Regulation, Sloan Kettering Institute, New
York, NY 10021.
Intravenous (IV) injection of 0.1 to 10 micrograms of authentic
prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) in intact steady-state mice induces a population of
bone marrow and spleen cells having the capacity to suppress CFU-GM
proliferation when admixed with normal bone marrow cells. Equivalent
suppression of CFU-GM committed to monocytic as well as granulocytic
differentiation was observed using colony-stimulating factors (CSFs)
differing in their lineage specificities and by direct morphological
analysis of proliferating clones. Kinetic analysis indicates that
suppressive bone marrow cells appear within 2 hours after PGE2 injection,
are maximal at 6 hours, and are no longer observed by 24 hours
postinjection. Positive and negative selection studies using monoclonal
antibodies indicate that the PGE2-induced suppressor cells react positively
with anti-GMA 1.2, MAC1, and F4/80 monoclonal antibodies, suggesting a
myeloid/monocytic origin. As few as 1,000 positively selected bone marrow
or spleen cells were able to inhibit maximally normal CFU-GM proliferation
by 50,000 control bone marrow cells. Suppression of normal CFU-GM can be
substituted for by 24- hour cell-free supernates from unseparated bone
marrow cells or GMA 1.2 or F4/80 positively selected marrow or spleen cells
from PGE2-treated but not control mice. These supernates also inhibited
BFU-E proliferation. Injection of as few as 2 million bone marrow cells
from PGE2-treated mice into steady-state mice or animals hematopoietically
rebounding following a sublethal injection of cyclophosphamide
significantly suppressed total CFU-GM proliferation in recipient mice
within 6 hours. In summary, these studies describe the detection of a novel
hematopoietic control network induced by PGE2 in intact mice.
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