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. 1990 Apr;81(4):355–362. doi: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1990.tb02575.x

Effect of Human Macrophage Colony‐stimulating Factor on Granulopoiesis and Survival in Bone‐marrow‐transplanted Mice

Nobuya Yanai 1,✉, Muneo Yamada 1, Kazuo Motoyoshi 2, Hajime Yokota 1, Katsuo Yoshida 1, Minoru Saito 1, Takuji Kawashima 1, Masayuki Nishida 4, Yasusada Miura 3, Masaki Saito 2, Fumimaro Takaku 5
PMCID: PMC5918058  PMID: 2114389

Abstract

Human macrophage colony‐stimulating factor (hM‐CSF) has been isolated from normal human urine and purified to a homogenous protein. The effect of hM‐CSF on granulopoiesis was investigated in BALB/c mice transplanted with a suboptimal number of bone marrow cells. Lethally irradiated (7.8 Gy) mice were transplanted with 1 × 106 syngeneic mouse bone marrow cells and treated with a daily intraperitoneal dose of 64 μg/kg of hM‐CSF for 5 days following the transplant. The hM‐CSF injection resulted in stimulation of the recovery of blood neutrophils as well as an increase in the number of granulocyte‐macrophage progenitor cells (CFU‐GM) in the femur and spleen. The survival of lethally irradiated mice was dependent on the cell number transplanted; most mice transplanted with 2 × 104 cells died within 2 weeks. The recovery of hematopoiesis in mice transplanted with 2 × 104 cells was modestly but significantly stimulated by hM‐CSF administration initiated from 5 days before or 1 day after transplantation for a 5‐day period. Furthermore, the hM‐CSF administrations markedly reduced the mortality in these mice during the early period after the transplantation. Since anaerobic bacteria were frequently detected in arterial blood immediately before the deaths but were not found in the surviving mice, it is speculated that early deaths occurring within 2 weeks after the transplant may be caused by opportunistic infections, and hM‐CSF injection may prevent these mortal infections through its stimulating effect on monocyte‐macrophage functions that are responsible for the production of hematopoietic regulators.

Keywords: Human macrophage colony‐stimulating factor, Bone marrow transplantation, Granulopoiesis, Infection

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