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Transgenic expression of human signal regulatory protein alpha in Rag2−/−γc −/− mice improves engraftment of human hematopoietic cells in humanized mice

Strowig, Till ; Rongvaux, Anthony ; Rathinam, Chozhavendan ; Takizawa, Hitoshi ; Borsotti, Chiara ; Philbrick, William ; Eynon, Elizabeth E. ; Manz, Markus G. ; Flavell, Richard A.

In: Proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the United States of America, 2011, vol. 108, no. 32, p. 13218-13223

Transplantation of human hematopoietic stem cells into severely immunocompromised newborn mice allows the development of a human hematopoietic and immune system in vivo. NOD/scid/γc−/− (NSG) and BALB/c Rag2−/ −γc−/− mice are the most commonly used mouse strains for this purpose and a number of studies have demonstrated the high value of these model systems in areas spanning from...

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Human thrombopoietin knockin mice efficiently support human hematopoiesis in vivo

Rongvaux, Anthony ; Willinger, Tim ; Takizawa, Hitoshi ; Rathinam, Chozhavendan ; Auerbach, Wojtek ; Murphy, Andrew J. ; Valenzuela, David M. ; Yancopoulos, George D. ; Eynon, Elizabeth E. ; Stevens, Sean ; Manz, Markus G. ; Flavell, Richard A.

In: Proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the United States of America, 2011, vol. 108, no. 6, p. 2378-2383

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) both self-renew and give rise to all blood cells for the lifetime of an individual. Xenogeneic mouse models are broadly used to study human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell biology in vivo. However, maintenance, differentiation, and function of human hematopoietic cells are suboptimal in these hosts. Thrombopoietin (TPO) has been demonstrated as a crucial...