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Stem cell mobilization by hyperbaric oxygen
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Stem cell mobilization by hyperbaric oxygen

Stephen R Thom, Veena M Bhopale, Omaida C Velazquez, Lee J Goldstein, Lynne H Thom and Donald G Buerk
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, v 290(4), pp H1378-1386
Apr 2006
PMID: 16299259

Abstract

Animals Antigens, CD34 - metabolism Cell Movement - physiology Cell Proliferation Cells, Cultured Female Hematopoietic Stem Cells - cytology Hematopoietic Stem Cells - physiology Humans Hyperbaric Oxygenation - methods Male Mice Mice, Knockout Middle Aged Nitric Oxide - metabolism Oxygen - metabolism
We hypothesized that exposure to hyperbaric oxygen (HBO(2)) would mobilize stem/progenitor cells from the bone marrow by a nitric oxide (*NO) -dependent mechanism. The population of CD34(+) cells in the peripheral circulation of humans doubled in response to a single exposure to 2.0 atmospheres absolute (ATA) O(2) for 2 h. Over a course of 20 treatments, circulating CD34(+) cells increased eightfold, although the overall circulating white cell count was not significantly increased. The number of colony-forming cells (CFCs) increased from 16 +/- 2 to 26 +/- 3 CFCs/100,000 monocytes plated. Elevations in CFCs were entirely due to the CD34(+) subpopulation, but increased cell growth only occurred in samples obtained immediately posttreatment. A high proportion of progeny cells express receptors for vascular endothelial growth factor-2 and for stromal-derived growth factor. In mice, HBO(2) increased circulating stem cell factor by 50%, increased the number of circulating cells expressing stem cell antigen-1 and CD34 by 3.4-fold, and doubled the number of CFCs. Bone marrow *NO concentration increased by 1,008 +/- 255 nM in association with HBO(2). Stem cell mobilization did not occur in knockout mice lacking genes for endothelial *NO synthase. Moreover, pretreatment of wild-type mice with a *NO synthase inhibitor prevented the HBO(2)-induced elevation in stem cell factor and circulating stem cells. We conclude that HBO(2) mobilizes stem/progenitor cells by stimulating *NO synthesis.

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