Myeloproliferative neoplasm stem cells

Jak2V617F myeloproliferative neoplasm stem cells and interferon-alpha

The myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) are clonal disorders of hematopoiesis that arise as a result of aberrant activation of tyrosine kinases and result in the proliferation and accumulation of mature myeloid cells in the blood, bone marrow and spleen. The prototypical MPN, chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is caused by constitutive activation of ABL kinase occurring as a result of the BCR-ABL f...

Heterozygous and Homozygous JAK2V617F States Modeled by Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Patients

JAK2(V617F) is the predominant mutation in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN). Modeling MPN in a human context might be helpful for the screening of molecules targeting JAK2 and its intracellular signaling. We describe here the derivation of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell lines from 2 polycythemia vera patients carrying a heterozygous and a homozygous mutated JAK2(V617F), respectively. In ...

CD34+ stem cells in chronic myeloproliferative disorders.

Contrasting the wealth of information that is available about various biological and therapeutic aspects of human CD34+ stem cells, little data exist concerning their quantity and dynamics as well as their mutual relationships with other hematopoietic constituents in the bone marrow of patients with chronic myeloproliferative disorders. In comparison with a control group frequency of progenitor...

Hypothetical Atopic Dermatitis-Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Syndrome

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease. Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) are hematopoietic malignancies caused by uncontrolled proliferation of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. Recent studies have described several mutant mice exhibiting both AD-like skin inflammation and MPN. Common pathways for skin inflammation encompass overexpression of thymic stromal lymphopo...

Low-dose methotrexate in myeloproliferative neoplasm models.