PMID: 6167163Jan 1, 1981Paper

Effects of dexamethasone on fetal hemoglobin synthesis in peripheral blood erythroid burst-forming units

American Journal of Hematology
M H SteinbergJ G Adams

Abstract

Colonies derived from erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E) synthesize fetal hemoglobin (HbF) in amounts that far exceed in vivo levels. There is some evidence that HbF synthesis is controlled at the level of a primitive erythroid precursor cell. Dexamethasone may potentiate the development of BFU-E. Since a means of augmenting HbF production in sickle cell anemia or severe beta-thalassemia would be of great therapeutic value, we studied the effects of dexamethasone on HbF and gamma-globin chain synthesis in BFU-E from patients with sickle cell anemia and controls. HbF was measured by radioimmunoassay of BFU-E lysate and gamma-chain synthesis by the incorporation of 3H-leucine into globin, which was then purified by gel filtration and column chromatography. Dexamethasone (10(-9) M) produced an increase in the number of BFU-E in 16 of 19 subjects when compared with numbers of BFU-E cultured with only erythropoietin. The individual BFU-E were larger and contained more subcolonies. Dexamethasone did not increase HbF or gamma-chain synthesis, and there was no relationship between proliferation of BFU-E and augmented HbF production. Thus, although dexamethasone augmented the development of erythroid bursts, there was no increment in...Continue Reading

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