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SUBMITTER: Buechler MB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3552021 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Buechler Matthew B MB Teal Thomas H TH Elkon Keith B KB Hamerman Jessica A JA
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20130109 3
Mice overexpressing TLR7 (TLR7.1 mice) are a model of systemic lupus erythematosus pathogenesis and exhibit peripheral myeloid expansion. We show that TLR7.1 mice have a dramatic expansion of splenic cells that derive from granulocyte/macrophage progenitors (GMP) compared with wild-type mice. In the bone marrow, TLR7.1 mice exhibited hallmarks of emergency myelopoiesis and contained a discrete population of Sca-1(+) GMP, termed emergency GMP, which are more proliferative and superior myeloid pre ...[more]