HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS AND CYTOKINES Flashcards
Stem Cell Theory
In 1961, _______conducted a series of experiments in which they irradiated spleens and bone marrow of mice, creating a state of aplasia.
These aplastic mice were given an intravenous injection of______ cells.
Colonies of HSCs were seen 7 to 8 days later in the spleens of the irradiated (re-cipient) mice.
These colonies were called…
Till and McCulloch
marrow
colony-forming units-spleen (CFU-S).
investigators later found that these colonies were capable of self-renewal and the production of differentiated progeny.
colony-forming units-spleen (CFU-S)
The CFU-S represents what we now refer to as committed ____________ granulocyte, erythrocyte, monocyte, and megakaryocyte (CFU-GEMM).
myeloid progenitors or colony-forming unit
These cells are capable of giving rise to multiple lineages of blood cells.
myeloid progenitors or colony-forming unit
Morphologically unrecognizable hematopoietic progenitor cells can be divided into two major types: (2)
These two groups give rise to all of the mature blood cells.
noncommitted or undifferentiated HSCs
committed progenitor cells.
The_______ theory suggests that all blood cells are derived from a single progenitor stem cell called a_______
monophyletic
pluripotent hematopoietic stem cell
The______ theory suggests that each of the blood cell lineages is derived from its own unique stem cell.
polyphyletic
The______ theory is the most widely accepted theory among experimental hematologists.
monophyletic
HSCs by definition are capable of_______, are______ and give rise to differentiated progeny, and are able to reconstitute the hematopoietic system of a lethally irradiated host.
self-renewal
pluripotent
The undifferentiated HSCs can differentiate into progenitor cells committed to either ______ or _______lineages.
lymphoid or myeloid
These lineage-specific progenitor cells are the_________ which proliferates and differentiates into T, B, and natural killer lymphocyte and dendritic lineages; and the_________, which proliferates and differentiates into individual granulocytic, erythrocytic, mono-cytic, and megakaryocytic lineages.
common lymphoid progenitor,
common myeloid progenitor
These lineage-specific progenitor cells are the common lymphoid progenitor, which proliferates and differentiates into:
T, B, and natural killer lymphocyte and dendritic lineages
proliferates and differentiates into individual granulocytic, erythrocytic, mono-cytic, and megakaryocytic lineages.
common myeloid progenitor
Despite the limited numbers of HSCs in the bone marrow,______ blood cells per kilogram of body weight are produced each day for the entire life span of an individual.
Most of the cells in normal bone marrow are precursor cells at various stages of maturation.
6 billion
HSCs are directed to one of three possible fates:
self-renewal
differentiation
apoptosis
When the HSC divides, it gives rise to two identical daughter cells.
Both daughter cells may follow the path of differentiation, leaving the________, or one daughter cell may return to the stem cell pool and the other daughter cell may follow the _________ or undergo apoptosis.
stem cell pool (symmetric division)
_______proposed that hematopoiesis is a random process whereby the HSC randomly commits to self-renewal or differentiation
This model is also called the______
Till and McCulloch
stochastic model of hematopoiesis.
Later studies suggested that the microenvironment in the bone marrow determines whether the HSC will self-renew or differentiate (model???)
instructive model of hematopoiesis
Researchers believe that the ultimate decision made by the HSC can be described by both the stochastic and instructive models of hematopoiesis.
The initial decision to self-renew or differentiate is probably_______, whereas lineage differentiation that occurs later is determined by various signals from the hematopoietic inductive microenviron-ment in response to specific requirements of the body.
stochastic
The _______ model suggests that HSCs receive low-level signals from the hematopoietic inductive microenvi-ronment to amplify or repress genes associated with commitment to multiple lineages.
multilineage priming model
The implication is that the cell’s fate is determined by intrinsic and extrinsic factors.
multilineage priming model
________ regulation involves proliferation and differentiation signals from specialized niches located in the hematopoietic inductive microenvironment via direct cell-to-cell or cellular-extracellular signaling molecules.”
Some of the cytokines released from the hematopoietic inductive microenvironment include factors that regulate proliferation and differentiation, such as….
Extrinsic
KIT ligand
thrombopoietin (TPO)
FLT3 ligand
_______ regulation involves genes such as_____, which is expressed in cells in the hemangioblast, a bipotential progenitor cell of mesodermal origin that gives rise to hematopoietic and endothelial lineages; and GATA2, which is expressed in later-appearing HSCs. Both these genes are essential for primitive and definitive hematopoiesis
Intrinsic
TAL1
In addition to factors involved in differentiation and regulation, there are__________, such as Notch-1 and Notch-2, that allow HSCs to respond to hematopoietic inductive microenvironment factors, altering cell fate.
regulatory signaling factors