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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Eleftherios Papoutsakis
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-4974 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Giammona Lisa M LM Fuhrken Peter G PG Papoutsakis Eleftherios T ET Miller William M WM
British journal of haematology 20061101 4
Megakaryocytic (Mk) cell maturation involves polyploidisation, and the number of platelets produced increases with Mk DNA content. Ploidy levels in cultured human MK cells are much lower than those observed in vivo. This study demonstrated that adding the water-soluble vitamin nicotinamide (NIC) to mobilised peripheral blood CD34+ cells cultured with thrombopoietin (Tpo) more than doubled the percentage of high-ploidy (> or = 8N) MK cells. This was observed regardless of donor-dependent differen ...[more]