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Department of Clinical Physiology, Occupational and Social Medicine, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany; present affiliation: Medicine Research Group, Medical Center of the University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
Key Words. Blood stem cells • Hematopoiesis • Cell renewal • Stem cell migration streams • Hematopoietic recovery • Progenitor cells
Dr. Theodor M. Fliedner, Radiation Medicine Research Group, Medical Center of the University of Ulm, Helmholtzstrasse 20, D-89081 Ulm, Germany.
It has been the purpose of this keynote address to review available evidence for the notion that the stem and progenitor cells circulating in the peripheral blood play a decisive role in the homeostasis of blood cell formation distributed throughout dozens of bone marrow units in the skeleton. Furthermore, if this notion is correct, one could speculate that the quantity and quality of stem and progenitor cells in the blood should reflect the functional state of the hematopoietic stem cell system throughout the skeletal bone marrow and provide a new tool for the evaluation of alteration in blood cell production. On this basis, the following questions are considered: A) What do we know about the quality and quantity of blood stem cells in steady-state conditions? B) In what way do blood stem cells respond to perturbations of the "steady-state" of blood cell formation? C) Which role do blood stem cells play during hemopoietic development assuming that the establishment of bone marrow hemopoiesis requires the "seeding" of blood stem cells into an appropriate cellular environment? D) What is the role of blood stem cells in hemopoietic regeneration after partial body irradiation with a small volume of marrow (and hence stem cells) protected? and E) What are the mechanisms and/or kinetics of hemopoietic recovery if stem cells introduced into the circulation were collected from exogenous (autologous or allogeneic) sources? In this review presentation, experimental work of our group and of other members of the scientific community is summarized. It becomes obvious that blood stem and progenitor cells play a key role in hematopoietic homeostasis. Furthermore, their physiology and pathophysiology deserve rigorous experimental studies in order to develop a novel tool in the diagnosis and prognosis of neoplastic and non-neoplastic disorders of blood cell formation.
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