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The Impact of ex Vivo Cytokine Stimulation on Engraftment of Primitive Hematopoietic Cells in a Non‐Human Primate Model
Author(s) -
DUNBAR CYNTHIA E.,
TAKATOKU MASAAKI,
DONAHUE ROBERT E.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb03594.x
Subject(s) - haematopoiesis , stem cell factor , ex vivo , stem cell , cytokine , transplantation , cd34 , hematopoietic growth factor , immunology , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , in vivo , andrology , cancer research , medicine , genetics
A bstract : The impairment of engraftment ability after ex vivo or in vivo stimulation of hematopoietic stem cells, potentially related to induction of active cell cycling, has recently been a topic of intense interest. Our group has used the non‐human primate autologous transplantation model and genetic marking to investigate a number of questions in hematopoiesis with direct relevance to human clinical applications. The issue of a potential reversible engraftment defect would have many implications for gene therapy and allogeneic or autologous transplantation. Initial in vitro studies with rhesus CD34 + cells indicated that after 4 days of stimulatory culture in stem cell factor (SCF), megakaryocyte growth and development factor (MDGF), and flt3 ligand (FLT), transfer of the cells to SCF alone on retronectin (FN) support resulted in decreased active cycling and a halt to proliferation, without a loss of viability or induction of apoptosis. We then directly compared the engraftment potential of cytokine‐stimulated cells versus those transferred to SCF on FN alone before reinfusion, SCF/G‐CSF mobilized CD34 + cells from three animals were split into two parts and transduced with either of two retroviral marking vectors for 4 days in the presence of SCF/FLT/MGDF on FN. One aliquot was cryopreserved, and the other was continued in culture without transduction for 2 days in the presence of SCF alone on FN. After total body irradiation, both aliquots were thawed and reinfused into each animal. In all animals, the level of marking from the fraction continued in culture for 2 days with SCF on FN was significantly higher than the level of marking from the aliquot transduced for 4 days without the 2‐day period in SCF alone. This approach may allow more efficient engraftment of successfully transduced or ex vivo expanded cells by avoiding active cell cycling at the time of reinfusion.