Abstract
We have investigated the phenotypic and functional characteristics of murine pre-B cells obtained in semisolid and liquid culture with stem cell factor (SCF) and interleukin 7 (IL-7). Both serum-supplemented and serum-deprived culture conditions were used. The source of bone marrow cells was either normal mice (CD1 and C3H) or the lupus strain of mice MRL/lpr and its congenic strain MRL/+. SCF (100 ng/ml) and IL-7 (250 ng/ml) supported murine B cell proliferation in vitro from all the murine strains analyzed both in serum-supplemented and serum-deprived conditions. Maximal colony growth was observed in both cases when the factors were used in combination. The growth factors alone induced some colony growth in serum-supplemented cultures but were either ineffective or had modest activity in serum-deprived cultures. Cells harvested from the colonies or generated in liquid cultures and stimulated with SCF + IL-7 in the absence of serum had almost exclusively a pre-B cell phenotype (BP-1+, B220+, slg-, CD4-, CD8-, Mac-1-, RB-6-). Both the maximal colony growth in semisolid culture and the maximal number of cells in liquid culture were observed at day 12-14. At this time, the pre-B cells failed to differentiate further and started t...Continue Reading
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