Publications by authors named "S Devanand"
Hematopoiesis develops in the bone marrow (BM) where multiple interactions regulate the differentiation and preservation of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs). Immune-deficient murine models have enabled the analysis of molecular and cellular regulation of human HSPCs, but the physiology of these models is questioned as human hematopoietic cells develop in xenogenic microenvironments. In this study, we thoroughly characterized a humanized (h) in vivo BM model, developed from fetal (F/) and post-natal (P-N/) mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) differentiation (called hOssicles [hOss]), in which human hematopoietic cells are generated following the transplantation of CD34 cells.
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- The study investigates the role of the ETO2::GLIS2 fusion oncogene in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML), highlighting its connection to worse outcomes in patients.
- The researchers developed models using lentiviral transduction and CRISPR-Cas9 to explore how ETO2::GLIS2 influences leukemia development in human fetal versus post-natal hematopoietic stem cells.
- They found that the presence of specific human cytokines like IL3 and SCF is crucial for leukemogenesis, suggesting that a combination treatment targeting MEK and BCL2 could effectively reduce leukemia progression.
Background: The authors had previously developed AnaVu, a low-resource 3D visualization tool for stereoscopic/monoscopic projection of 3D models generated from pre-segmented MRI neuroimaging data. However, its utility in neuroanatomical education compared to conventional methods (specifically whether the stereoscopic or monoscopic mode is more effective) is still unclear.
Methods: A three-limb randomized controlled trial was designed.
Bone marrow (BM) resident macrophages interact with a population of long-term hematopoietic stem cells (LT-HSCs) but their role on LT-HSC properties after stress is not well defined. Here, we show that a 2 Gy-total body irradiation (TBI)-mediated death of LT-HSCs is associated with increased percentages of LT-HSCs with reactive oxygen species (ROS) and of BM resident macrophages producing nitric oxide (NO), resulting in an increased percentage of LT-HSCs with endogenous cytotoxic peroxynitrites. Pharmacological or genetic depletion of BM resident macrophages impairs the radio-induced increases in the percentage of both ROS+ LT-HSCs and peroxynitrite+ LT-HSCs and results in a complete recovery of a functional pool of LT-HSCs.
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