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A comparison of the effect of cytotoxic agents on agar colony forming cells, spleen colony forming cells, and the erythrocytic repopulating ability of mouse bone marrow
Author(s) -
Millard R. E.,
Blackett N. M.,
Okell S. F.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of cellular physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.529
H-Index - 174
eISSN - 1097-4652
pISSN - 0021-9541
DOI - 10.1002/jcp.1040820219
Subject(s) - bone marrow , biology , spleen , progenitor cell , cytotoxic t cell , vinblastine , population , cyclophosphamide , immunology , colony forming unit , agar , stem cell , microbiology and biotechnology , chemotherapy , in vitro , medicine , biochemistry , genetics , environmental health , bacteria
Three assays for bone marrow progenitor cells have been used to determine the effect of single doses of two cytotoxic agents, cyclophosphamide and vinblastine. The assays employed were the agar colony forming and spleen colony forming assays and the crythroid repopulating ability. In normal mice, there was little difference between the response of the progenitor cells assayed by the three methods, following cyclophosphamide: and no detectable difference following vinblastine. Bone marrow from continuously irradiated mice and bone marrow regenerating seven days following transplantation was also studied: in both these situations the proliferation rate of the progenitor cells is increased. Cyclophosphamide was found to be only slightly proliferation dependent with each assay. However, vinblastine was strikingly proliferation dependent. In irradiated mice and also in regenerating marrow the agar colony forming cells were many times more sensitive to this agent than were the other progenitor cells. These results show that under some but not all circumstances the agar colony forming and spleen colony forming cells behave similarly in C57BL mice, but are not a single population of cells.