The reaction of lymphatic component of hemopoiesis to fractionated irradiation and repeated bone marrow transplantation.

Mice were repeatedly subjected to individual doses of 60Co-gamma rays at intervals of four days up to total doses of 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21 and 24 Gy. Under these conditions, signs of partial adaptation of the lymphatic component of hemopoiesis to conditions of repeated irradiations were found in mice which were given transplants of 10(6) nuclear cells of syngenetic bone marrow after each irradiation. Systematic findings of statistically significant differences in the values of the lymphatic hemopoietic component parameters studied between bone marrow recipients and animals subjected only to repeated irradiations were recorded after 24th day of experiment in mice which received total doses of 21 and 24 Gy.

Changes in hemopoiesis of dying and surviving mice after fractionated irradiation and repeated bone marrow transplantation.

Mice received doses of 3 Gy of 60Co-gamma rays total body irradiation at four-day intervals up to a total dose of 24 Gy. After each dose per fraction half of the animals were injected with 10(6) bone marrow cells. At four- and nine-day intervals evaluations were made of the blood count, bone marrow and spleen cellularities, and spleen mass.

Morphology of interactions of the haematopoietic microenvironment with the haematopoietic cells in erythroid spleen colonies.

The morphology of the interactions of the cells of the haematopoietic microenvironment with haematopoietic cells was studied in exogenous erythroid spleen colonies formed in mice, on the fifth and eighth day after their irradiation with a lethal dose of gamma rays and bone marrow transplantation. The characteristic type of stromal cell interacting with less mature cells of the erythroid series was a dark, branching reticular cell. The typical structural interaction of the reticular cells with erythroblasts was the formation of very long, fine cytoplasmic processes by the reticular cells.

Haemopoiesis in murine bone marrow and spleen after fractionated irradiation and repeated bone marrow transplantation. II. Granulopoiesis.

Granulopoiesis was studied in mice repeatedly subjected to individual doses of 3 Gy of 60Co gamma-rays at 4-day intervals up to a total dose of 24 Gy on the basis of total bone marrow cellularity follow-up and analysis of myelograms and splenograms. Half of the mice received 10(6) nuclear cells of syngeneic bone marrow after each fractional radiation dose. After an initial steep decrease, the number of granuloid cells in the spleen increased about 30-fold between days 12 and 16 of the experiment (total dose 9 and 12 Gy, respectively).

Haemopoiesis in murine bone marrow and spleen after fractionated irradiation and repeated bone marrow transplantation. I. Erythropoiesis.

Erythropoiesis was studied in mice repeatedly subjected to individual doses of 3 Gy of 60Co gamma-rays at 4-day intervals up to a total dose of 24 Gy on the basis of total bone marrow and spleen cellularity follow-up and analysis of myelograms and splenograms. Half of the mice received 10(6) nuclear cells of syngeneic bone marrow after each fractional radiation dose. It was mainly the spleen which was involved in the adaptation and regeneration of erythropoiesis, its contribution to total erythropoiesis in bone marrow recipients having been as much as 73.