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  • Title: Murine granulocyte-macrophage and mast cell colony formation promoted by nerve growth factor.
    Author: Kannan Y, Matsuda H, Ushio H, Kawamoto K, Shimada Y.
    Journal: Int Arch Allergy Immunol; 1993; 102(4):362-7. PubMed ID: 8241798.
    Abstract:
    The nerve growth factor (NGF) is widely distributed in the target tissues of sympathetic neurons. Hemopoietic organs such as the bone marrow (BM) and spleens are known to be innervated by noradrenergic sympathetic neurons. Some of their constitutive cells express NGF receptors (lymphocytes and stroma cells) and its biologic effects have been extensively studied in the immune system and inflammatory responses. However, the effects of NGF on hemopoiesis have been little examined. Recently, we demonstrated that NGF promoted mast cell colony formation from murine BM cells (BMC) or BMC-derived cultured mast cells and induced the phenotypic changes in standard hemopoietic assays. Besides, we demonstrated NGF-enhanced murine neutrophil survival and functional properties. In this study, in order to investigate NGF activities on neutrophil differentiation, we examined granulocyte-macrophage (GM) colony formation from murine BMC or spleen cells (SC) in the methylcellulose culture. We also assessed mast cell colony formation. GM colonies were counted on day 5 and mast cell colonies were counted on day 20 in culture. Although NGF alone (50 ng/ml) neither supported GM nor mast cell colony formation, addition of various doses of NGF to the suboptimal dose of pokeweed mitogen-stimulated SC-conditioned medium (2.5%) or interleukin 3 (50 U/ml), well-known colony-stimulating factors, increased the number of GM and mast cell colonies from both BMC and SC in a dose-dependent manner. These colony formation-enhancing effects of NGF were inhibited by the addition of neutralizing sheep anti-NGF antibodies. The results suggest that NGF may act to develop granulopoiesis including neutrophil and mast cell differentiation in cooperation with hemopoietic factor(s) during inflammatory processes.
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