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Okabe, Hiroshi; Suzuki, Takahiro; Uehara, Eisuke; Ueda, Masuzu; Nagai, Tadashi; Ozawa, Keiya
European journal of haematology, August 2014, Volume: 93, Issue: 2Journal Article
Objectives Increasing numbers of reports have described hematopoietic improvement after iron chelation therapy in iron‐overloaded patients. These observations indicate that excess iron could affect hematopoiesis unfavorably. To investigate how excess iron affects hematopoiesis in vivo, we generated iron‐overloaded mice and examined hematopoietic parameters in these mice. Methods We generated iron‐overloaded mice by injecting 200 mg of iron dextran into C57BL/6J mice, and immature hematopoietic cells in the bone marrow were evaluated by flow cytometric analyses, colony‐forming assays, and bone marrow transplantation analyses. We also examined changes in molecular profiles of the hematopoietic microenvironment. Results and Conclusions Iron‐overloaded (IO) mice did not show significant defects in the hematopoietic data of the peripheral blood. Myeloid progenitor cells in the bone marrow were increased in IO mice, but the number and function of the erythroid progenitors and hematopoietic stem cells were not significantly affected. However, bone marrow transplantation from normal donors to IO recipients showed delayed hematopoietic reconstitution, which indicates that excess iron impacts the hematopoietic microenvironment negatively. Microarray and quantitative RT‐PCR analyses on the bone marrow stromal cells demonstrated remarkably reduced expression of CXCL12, VCAM‐1, Kit‐ligand, and IGF‐1 in the iron‐overloaded mice. In addition, erythropoietin and thrombopoietin levels were significantly suppressed, and increased oxidative stress was observed in the IO bone marrow and liver. Consequently, our findings indicate that excess iron can damage bone marrow stromal cells and other vital organs, disrupting hematopoiesis presumably by increased oxidative stress.
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