Background: Thrombopoietin is a glycoprotein produced by liver and kidney which is responsible for regulating the platelet production. Thrombopoietin is a key ligand with impact on regulating the self-renewal of Hematopoietic stem cells and the regulation of Megakaryocytes progenitors. Previous studies have indicated that only N-terminal domain of this protein has receptor promoting ability. Th...

Thrombopoietin confers immediate protection against injury caused by ischemia/reperfusion in the rat heart. Eltrombopag is a small molecule agonist of the thrombopoietin receptor, the physiologic target of thrombopoietin. However, the ability of eltrombopag and thrombopoietin to protect human cardiac myocytes against injury and the mechanisms underlying myocyte protection are not known. Human c...

Thrombopoietin and its receptor (Mpl) support survival and proliferation in megakaryocyte progenitors and in BaF3 cells engineered to stably express Mpl (BaF3/Mpl). The binding of thrombopoietin to Mpl activates multiple kinase pathways, including the Jak/STAT, Ras/Raf/MAPK, and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase pathways, but it is not clear how these kinases promote cell cycling. Here, we show tha...

Thrombopoietin (also called c-Mpl ligand, megakaryocyte growth and development factor, megapoietin) has recently been purified and cloned. This molecule is indeed the long-sought-after hematopoietic factor that controls platelet production. Thrombopoietin levels increase within 24 h after the onset of thrombocytopenia and are inversely and exponentially proportional to the platelet count. Injec...

BACKGROUND Thrombocytopenia in cirrhotic patients may be due to deficient production of thrombopoietin. AIMS To determine the relation between thrombopoietin and thrombocytopenia in cirrhotic patients before and after orthotopic liver transplantation. METHODS Thrombopoietin concentrations and platelet counts were measured in 43 cirrhotic patients and 21 normal controls and serially for 14 d...

Recombinant thrombopoietin has been reported to stimulate megakaryocytopoiesis and thrombopoiesis and it may be quite useful to treat patients with low platelet counts after chemotherapy. As little is known regarding the possible activation of platelets by thrombopoietin, we examined the effects of thrombopoietin on platelet aggregation induced by shear stress and various agonists in native pla...

To evaluate whether the serum thrombopoietin levels in pregnancy-associated immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) differ from those in gestational thrombocytopenia, and reveal the possibility of thrombopoietin serving as a marker for differential diagnosis. Serum thrombopoietin concentration was determined in ITP in pregnancy (n = 35), gestational thrombocytopenia (n = 31), healthy pregnancy (n = 32), ...

The effects of administration of partially purified human urinary erythropoietin and rabbit thrombopoietin, and of endogenously produced erythropoietin and thrombopoietin on both red cell and platelet production were examined in mice. Partially purified thrombopoietin was prepared from rabbit plasma by sequential fractionation with ammonium sulfate precipitation, and DEAE and Sephadex G-100 chr...

A cDNA for the thrombopoietin has been cloned by several groups. The recombinant thrombopoietin has been reported to stimulate the megakaryocytopoiesis and thrombopoiesis. Little is known regarding the molecular basis of its effects. To elucidate the molecular mechanism involved in signal transduction, we have investigated the effects of thrombopoietin on platelet tyrosine phosphorylation. We r...

Thrombopoietin (c-Mpl ligand) has recently been purified and is considered to be the humoral regulator of platelet production. To see whether this molecule possessed the physiologic characteristics necessary to mediate the feed-back loop between blood platelets and the bone marrow megakaryocytes, we determined the relationship between blood levels of thrombopoietin and changes in the circulatin...