Thyroid Hormones Stimulate Erythropoiesis in Vitro
- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Haematology
- Vol. 37 (2), 173-177
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2141.1977.tb06833.x
Abstract
Thyroid hormones have important effects on erythropoiesis in man and animals. We performed in vitro culture studies with murine and human bone marrow in order to define the interaction of these hormones with erythroid and granulocyte-monocyte progenitor cells. The methylcellulose clonogenic assay was used with the appropriate addition of erythropoietin or colony-stimulating activity. L-Thyroxine, D-thyroxine and L-triiodothyronine potentiated erythropoietin-stimulated erythroid colony formation in concentrations of 50–100 ng/ml. These hormones had no effect on granulocyte-monocyte colony formation at concentrations up to 500 ng/ml. Testing of various thyroid analogues showed no clear correlation between potentiation of erythropoiesis and known calorigenic potency. Reverse triiodothyronine also had potentiating activity in this system. The active thyroid hormones stimulated erythroid colony formation at several concentrations of erythropoietin but could not substitute for erythropoietin. These data suggest that thyroid hormones have a direct effect on erythroid precursor proliferative capacity, a finding which may have relevance to the mechanism of erythropoietic dysfunction in human thyroid disease.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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