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I McNiece, R Andrews, M Stewart, S Clark, T Boone and P Quesenberry
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Purified preparations of recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage
colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), granulocyte CSF (G-CSF), and
interleukin 3 (IL-3 or multi-CSF) alone and in combination, have been
compared for their stimulatory effects on human granulocyte-macrophage
colony forming cells (GM-CFC). In cultures of unseparated normal human bone
marrow, the combinations of G-CSF plus IL-3 and GM-CSF plus IL-3 stimulated
additive numbers of GM colonies, while GM-CSF plus G-CSF stimulated greater
than additive numbers of GM colonies, compared with the sum of the colony
formation obtained with each factor alone. Cultures of unseparated bone
marrow, harvested from patients four to six days after administration of
5-fluorouracil (5-FU), resulted in additive GM colony formation with GM-CSF
plus G-CSF, GM-CSF plus IL-3, and G-CSF plus IL-3. In order to address the
possibility of secondary factor involvement in the synergistic interaction
of GM-CSF and G-CSF, CD33+/CD34+ colony forming cells were separated from
normal and post FU marrow by two color fluorescence activated cell sorting.
In cultures of CD33+/CD34+ cells the combination of GM-CSF plus G-CSF
stimulated a synergistic increase in GM colonies while GM-CSF plus IL-3
stimulated additive numbers of colonies. These results suggest that GM-CSF,
G-CSF, and IL-3 stimulate distinct populations of GM-CFC. Furthermore
GM-CSF and G-CSF interact synergistically and this action is a direct
effect on progenitor cells not stimulated by GM-CSF or G-CSF alone.
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