DYNAMICS OF HEMOPOIETIC PROLIFERATION IN MAN AND MICE STUDIED BY H-3-THYMIDINE INCORPORATION INTO DNA
DYNAMICS OF HEMOPOIETIC PROLIFERATION IN MAN AND MICE STUDIED BY H-3-THYMIDINE INCORPORATION INTO DNA
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10.1111/j.1749-6632.1959.tb36943.x
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1959-01-01
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QUASTLER, H
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CRONKITE, EP;FLIEDNER, TM;QUASTLER, H
Tritiated thymidine has been used in animals and in human beings with normal and abnormal hematopoiesis to study the kinetics of bone-marrow cell proliferation. Thymidine is taken up by the nucleus only during DNA synthesis preparatory to cell division. Its intracellular location was determined and quantified by means of stripping film autoradiography and classic cytology. In the bone marrow of human beings with normal hematopoiesis given H3-thymidine intravenously, intense labeling of primitive proliferating cells was observed within minutes. Maximal labeling of erythrocyte precursors occurred at 12 to 24 hours; myeloid precursors, between the 3d and 4th days. Maximal labeling of megakaryocytes was observed on the 5th day. Labeling in the peripheral blood of large mononuclear cells occurred early; the peak labeling of granulocytes occurred on the 5th and 6th days. H3-thymidine incubated with normal human bone marrow resulted in heavy labeling in all cell series; normal venous blood showed labeling of only a small percentage of the large mononuclear cells. The pattern of H3-thymidine uptake with in vitro incubation of bone marrow and venous blood from patients varied with different hematopoietic disorders. A preliminary analysis of the quantitative results in terms of the kinetics of hematopoietic cell proliferation in health and in disease is made, and the requirements for resolution of the complex problems involved are indicated. The intense labeling of the fragile group of primitive mesenchymal cells in the lymph nodes and bone marrow and their appearance in lymph and blood in small numbers prove that immature cells capable of division are continually migrating throughout the body. It is believed that this is a new observation, the significance of which is not yet clear. However, it is entertaining to consider this phenomenon as another general biological protective measure to make totipotential cells available at any time or place for defense, repair, or repopulation of damaged bone marrow, as in radiation or other total or partial aplasias of the marrow.