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RM Khaitov, RV Petrov, BB Moroz and GI Bezin
The influence of bilateral adrenalectomy on hemopoietic stem cell (CFU)
migration in mice has been studied. Formation of endogenous spleen colonies
in lethally irradiated, leg-shielded mice was sharply increased by prior
adrenalectomy, and this increase was not dependent on the volume of
shielded bone marrow. Adrenalectomy was shown to increase endogenous spleen
colony formation in sublethally irradiated mice as well. However, it had no
affect on formation of spleen colonies in lethally irradiated mice injected
with syngeneic bone marrow. The CFU content of murine bone marrow decreased
acutely after removal of the adrenals, and this decrease was accompanied by
a concomitant increase in the peripheral blood and splenic CFU. Thus,
adrenalectomy appeared to have no affect on the splenic plating efficiency
or proliferative rate of hemopoietic stem cells, but it did result in
increased migration of stem cells from the bone marrow to the blood, and
thence to the spleen. It is concluded that the adrenal steroids may be of
physiologic importance in the regulation of ehmopoietic stem cell
migration.
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