Interaction of monocytes and T cells in the regulation of normal human megakaryocytopoiesis in vitro: role of IL‐1 and IL‐2
- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Haematology
- Vol. 76 (1), 12-20
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2141.1990.tb07830.x
Abstract
Summary. Autologous or allogeneic peripheral blood T cells can stimulate the human megakaryocyte progenitor cell (CFU-Meg)-derived colony formation in a dose-dependent fashion in agar cultures of nonadherent (NA), T cell-depleted (NT) bone marrow (BM) cells. Low concentrations of monocytes and T cells can collaborate in the stimulation of CFU-Meg colony formation or in the production of megakaryocyte colony stimulating factor (Meg-CSF) by T cells in the presence of mitogens or IL-2. Monocytes alone can produce only negligible Meg-CSF under any conditions. When monocyte conditioned medium (CM) was added to T cell-stimulated NA, NT BM cell cultures, CFU-Meg colony growth was appreciably increased compared with that stimulated by T cells alone. Dose-dependent increase in CFU-Meg colony growth was noted when varying concentrations of IL-1 were added to T cell-stimulated NA, NT cell cultures, although IL,-1 itself could support no CFU-Meg colony growth in the absence of T cells. These data suggest that a synergistic interaction between T cells and monocytes during the production of Meg-CSF by T cells could be partly mediated by IL-1. IL-2 was found to stimulate Meg-CSF production by T cells in the presence or absence of mitogens. IL-2-stimulated Meg-CSF production by T cells was augmented by the addition of monocytes. Although IL-2 itself had no stimulatory effect on CFU-Meg colony growth, dramatic augmentation in the CFU-Meg colony number was noted when IL-2 was added to T cell-stimulated NA, NT cell cultures. High concentrations of monocytes and prostaglandin E (PGE) inhibited the CFU-Meg colony formation. These results suggest that IL-1 and IL-2 may play a stimulatory role on the normal human in vitro megakaryocytopoiesis and may be involved in the development of reactive thrombocytosis and bone marrow mega-karyocytic hyperplasia in various inflammatory diseases.This publication has 50 references indexed in Scilit:
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