Kinetics of granulocytic and erythroid progenitor cells are affected differently by short-term, low-level benzene exposure.
Kinetics of granulocytic and erythroid progenitor cells are affected differently by short-term, low-level benzene exposure.
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短期、低水平的苯暴露对粒细胞和红系祖细胞的动力学产生不同的影响。
DOI:
10.1007/bf01973716
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发表时间:
1991
影响因子:
6.1
通讯作者:
Snyder,CA
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作者:
Dempster,AM;Snyder,CA
In previous work, we determined that granulocytic (CFU-GM) and erythroid (CFU-E) progenitor cell populations exhibited disparate responses to short-term benzene exposures. We now report on work investigating possible mechanisms for these observed disparate responses. Mice were exposed to either air or 10 ppm benzene for 6 h/d X 5 d. Immediately after the last exposure, mice were injected, i. v., with either saline or hydroxyurea (HU). The dose of HU was sufficient to kill hematopoietic cells in or near S-phase of the cell cycle and sufficient to synchronize the surviving populations of hematopoietic cells. Three days after benzene exposure, CFU-E numbers had declined to 50% of control values while CFU-GM numbers were equal to control values at this time. The benzene exposures were sufficient to double the percentage of CFU-E in S-phase but produced no such increase among CFU-GM. During 3 days of recovery from benzene exposure and HU treatment, the CFU-E population expanded 30-fold while the CFU-GM population expanded less than 3-fold. Following benzene exposure and HU treatment, both progenitor cells produced elevated numbers of their respective progeny. When CFU-E from benzene-exposed mice were cultured with varying concentrations of erythropoietin (EPO), the response at maximal EPO concentration was 66% of the response by control CFU-E. This strongly suggests that the CFU-E populations from benzene-exposed mice had been depleted of cells in or near S-phase. The results indicate that CFU-GM respond to low-level benzene exposure by increasing their rate of differentiation but not their rate of proliferation, while CFU-E respond by increasing both their rates of differentiation and proliferation. We speculate that it is the increase in CFU-E proliferation that renders these cells more susceptible to benzene than their granulocytic counterparts, especially those CFU-E at or near the S-phase of the cell cycle.