Yoder M C, Hiatt K, Mukherjee P
Herman B. Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, 702 Barnhill Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 Jun 24;94(13):6776-80. doi: 10.1073/pnas.94.13.6776.
The murine yolk sac, being the first site of embryonic blood cell production, has long been theorized to contain the migrating hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) that seed the liver and initiate hematopoiesis on day 10.0 postcoitus (pc). However, it remains controversial whether yolk sac cells isolated before day 11.0 pc possess any long-term repopulating HSC activity upon transplantation into adult recipient mice. We hypothesized that failure to demonstrate engraftment of day <11.0 yolk sac cells in adult hosts may result from an inability of yolk sac cells to home to the active adult hematopoietic sites (spleen and bone marrow). In the present studies, we transplanted yolk sac cells into conditioned newborn mice in whom the liver, as well as the spleen and bone marrow, concomitantly function as a site of blood cell formation. We report that yolk sac cells isolated from day 9.0 pc embryos provide long-term multilineage reconstitution for at least 11 months in primary conditioned newborn mice and for at least 6 months in secondary recipients. Donor yolk sac HSC progeny repopulated mature peripheral blood, thymus, spleen, and bone marrow lymphoid, myeloid, and erythroid compartments. Thus, day 9.0 pc yolk sac HSC can contribute to definitive multilineage hematopoiesis in transplanted recipients. Determination of HSC activity in the day 9.0 pc murine yolk sac suggests that yolk sac HSC are available to seed the liver on day 10.0 pc when definitive hematopoiesis is initiated.
鼠类卵黄囊是胚胎血细胞产生的首个部位,长期以来一直有理论认为其含有迁移的造血干细胞(HSC),这些干细胞在交配后第10.0天(pc)定植于肝脏并启动造血过程。然而,在交配后第11.0天之前分离的卵黄囊细胞移植到成年受体小鼠后是否具有任何长期重建造血干细胞活性仍存在争议。我们推测,未能在成年宿主中证明<11.0天的卵黄囊细胞植入可能是由于卵黄囊细胞无法归巢到活跃的成年造血部位(脾脏和骨髓)。在本研究中,我们将卵黄囊细胞移植到条件性新生小鼠体内,在这些小鼠中,肝脏以及脾脏和骨髓同时作为血细胞形成的部位。我们报告称,从交配后第9.0天胚胎分离的卵黄囊细胞在原发性条件性新生小鼠中提供至少11个月的长期多谱系重建,在继发性受体中提供至少6个月的长期多谱系重建。供体卵黄囊造血干细胞后代重新填充了成熟的外周血、胸腺、脾脏和骨髓的淋巴、髓系和红系区室。因此,交配后第9.0天的卵黄囊造血干细胞可在移植受体中促成确定性的多谱系造血。对交配后第9.0天鼠类卵黄囊中造血干细胞活性的测定表明,当启动确定性造血时,卵黄囊造血干细胞可在交配后第10.0天定植于肝脏。