| Literature DB >> 18842099 |
Halvard Bonig1, Gregory V Priestley, Martin Wohlfahrt, Hans-Peter Kiem, Thalia Papayannopoulou.
Abstract
Our understanding of the mechanisms by which intravenously transplanted hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs) home to and engraft the bone marrow (BM) remains incomplete, but participation of adhesion molecules has been documented. We here demonstrate that blockade of the alpha6-integrin enhanced BM homing of human and nonhuman primate BM-derived HSPCs by >60% in the xenogeneic transplant model and led to significantly improved engraftment. The effect was limited to BM-derived HSPCs, as granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor mobilized peripheral blood or cord blood HSPCs express little or no alpha6 integrin. By contrast, despite high alpha6 integrin expression, no effect of alpha6 blockade on murine BM-HSPCs homing/engraftment was observed.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 18842099 PMCID: PMC2866506 DOI: 10.1089/scd.2008.0269
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Stem Cells Dev ISSN: 1547-3287 Impact factor: 3.272