Erythropoiesis is a complex process that starts in the course of embryo formation and it is maintained throughout the life of an organism. During the fetal development, erythropoiesis arises from different body sites and erythroblast maturation occurs in the fetal liver. After birth, erythropoiesis and erythroblast maturation take place exclusively in the bone marrow, generating a lifetime rese...

I T HAS BEEN proved by many authors that polycythemia induced by blood transfusion reduces the peripheral reticulocyte count and inhibits erythropoiesis. #{176} In previous investigations on erythropoiesis We have observed that polycythemia causes the appearance in the plasma of an active substance, which is antagonistic to erythropoietin. The plasma obtained from polycythemic animals was injec...

Progress in our understanding of iron-restricted erythropoiesis has been made possible by important advances in defining the molecular mechanisms of iron homeostasis. The detection and diagnostic classification of iron-restricted erythropoiesis can be a challenging process for the clinician. Newer assays for markers of inflammation may allow more targeted management of the anemia in these condi...

I T HAS BEEN proved by many authors that polycythemia induced by blood transfusion reduces the peripheral reticulocyte count and inhibits erythropoiesis. #{176} In previous investigations on erythropoiesis We have observed that polycythemia causes the appearance in the plasma of an active substance, which is antagonistic to erythropoietin. The plasma obtained from polycythemic animals was injec...

AIMS To determine the effect of concomitant azathioprine treatment on the response of patients with renal failure to treatment with subcutaneous recombinant human erythropoietin (r-HuEPO). METHODS Two groups of patients with renal failure not receiving haemodialysis were studied. One comprised seven patients receiving erythropoietin alone, the second consisted of nine patients who were also t...

Under steady state conditions, erythropoiesis occurs in the bone marrow. However, in mice, stress or tissue hypoxia results in increased erythropoiesis in the spleen. There is increasing evidence that the hematopoietic microenvironment, including endothelial cells, plays an important role in regulating erythropoiesis. Here, we show that short-term expression of constitutively active Akt in the ...

β-Thalassemia major causes ineffective erythropoiesis and chronic anemia and is associated with iron overload due to both transfused iron and increased iron absorption, the latter mediated by suppression of the iron-regulatory hormone hepcidin. We sought to determine whether, in β-thalassemia major, transfusion-mediated inhibition of erythropoiesis dynamically affects hepcidin. We recruited 31 ...

The role of NFAT family transcription factors in erythropoiesis is so far unknown, although their involvement has been suggested previously. We have shown recently that Il2-/- mice develop severe anemia due to defects in KLF1 activity during BM erythropoiesis. Although, KLF1 activity is indispensable for erythropoiesis, the molecular details of Klf1 expression have not yet been elucidated. Here...

The retinoblastoma (Rb) tumor suppressor plays important roles in regulating hematopoiesis, particularly erythropoiesis. In an effort to understand whether Rb function can be mediated by E2F transcription factors in a BM-derived hematopoietic system in mice, we uncovered a functional synergy between Rb and E2F8 to promote erythropoiesis and to prevent anemia. Specifically, whereas Mx1-Cre-media...

Erythropoiesis involves a dynamic process that begins with committed erythroid burst forming units (BFU-Es) followed by rapidly dividing erythroid colony forming units (CFU-Es). After CFU-Es, cells are morphologically recognizable and generally termed terminal erythroblasts. One of the challenges for the study of terminal erythropoiesis is the lack of experimental approaches to dissect gene fun...