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. 2021 Aug 16;12:719349. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.719349

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Gene regulatory network controlling larval emergency hematopoiesis. The PSC (red) plays an essential role in mounting the cellular immune response. In response to wasp parasitism, increased Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) levels in the PSC cause lamellocyte differentiation from lymph gland progenitors (green) and circulating hemocytes. ROS in PSC cells activate Toll/NF-kB and Spitz secretion (sSpi). sSpi, the EGFR ligand, induces lamellocyte fate. Toll/NF-kB activation in the PSC regulates non cell-autonomously lamellocyte differentiation in the lymph gland. EGFR and Toll/NF-kB activation are required to regulate lymph gland stress hematopoiesis.