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Title: Radioprotection of mice with interleukin-1: Relationship to the number of erythroid and granulocyte-macrophage colony-forming cells

Journal Article · · Radiation Research; (USA)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2307/3577507· OSTI ID:7189743

This report presents the results of an investigation of changes in the number of erythroid and granulocyte-macrophage colony-forming cells (GM-CFC) that had occurred in tissues of normal B6D2F1 mice 20 h after administration of a radioprotective dose (150 ng) of human recombinant interleukin-1 (rIL-1). Neutrophilia in the peripheral blood and changes in the tissue distribution of GM-CFC demonstrated that cells were mobilized from the bone marrow in response to rIL-1 injection. For example, 20 h after rIL-1 injection marrow GM-CFC numbers were 80% of the numbers in bone marrow from saline-injected mice. Associated with this decrease there was a twofold increase in the number of peripheral blood and splenic GM-CFC. Also, as determined by hydroxyurea injection, there was an increase in the number of GM-CFC in S phase of the cell cycle in the spleen, but not in the bone marrow. Data in this report suggest that when compared to the spleen, stimulation of granulopoiesis after rIL-1 injection is delayed in the bone marrow. Also, the earlier recovery of GM-CFC in the bone marrow of irradiated mice is not dependent upon an increase in the number of GM-CFC at the time of irradiation.

OSTI ID:
7189743
Journal Information:
Radiation Research; (USA), Vol. 121:2; ISSN 0033-7587
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English