INDUCTION OF MACROPHAGE PRODUCTION AND PROLIFERATION BY A PURIFIED COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR
INDUCTION OF MACROPHAGE PRODUCTION AND PROLIFERATION BY A PURIFIED COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR
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DOI:
10.1038/274168a0
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
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影响因子:
64.8
通讯作者:
LIN, HS
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作者:
STANLEY, ER;CHEN, DM;LIN, HS
COLONY STIMULATING FACTORS (CSFs) stimulate isolated haemopoietic progenitor cells to differentiate and form granulocyte and/or macrophage coloniesin vitro1,2. There seem to be at least two distinct subclasses of CSF, those stimulating macrophage colony formation and those stimulating granulocytic colony formation. Purified CSF from mouse L cell-conditioned medium is a 70,000 molecular weight glycoprotein, comprising two disulphide-bonded 35,000 MW subunits3. At concentrations as low as 10−12M it stimulates macrophage colony formation by murine bone marrow cells. It has similar physicochemical properties to, and shared antigenic determinants with, the CSF from human urine3–6. This type of CSF has been shown6to share identity with the macrophage growth factor of Virolainen and Defendi7that stimulates proliferation of peritoneal exudate macrophages. The purified CSF was also active6in stimulating macrophage colony formation by peritoneal exudate cells in the agar culture system of Lin and Stewart8. We now report that this same kind of CSF is the molecule responsible for the proliferation of mononuclear phagocytes from several haemopoietic and nonhaemopoietic tissues.