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Published on: August 9, 2019
Effect of age on human peripheral blood stem cells
Y Egusa1, Y Fujiwara, E Syahruddin
1Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Kasumi 1-2-3, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734, Japan.
Abstract:
We evaluated the correlation between the number of peripheral blood stem cells (PBSCs) and aging by monitoring those of CD34+ cells (PB-CD34+), colony-forming unit granulocyte macrophages (PB-CFU-GM) per 1 ml of peripheral blood in normal volunteers (n=50) including 20 males and 30 females (median age 67, range 20-90). The numbers of PB-CD34+, PB-CFU-GM were monitored by flow cytometry and methylcellulose-based colony assay, respectively. An inverse correlation between the number of PB-CD34+ with age (r=-0.33, p=0.020) was found. Furthermore, the number of PB-CFU-GM also showed an inverse correlation with age (r=-0.58, p=0.003). Based on these results, it is suggested that the number of PBSCs decrease with age.
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