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Resilient anatomy and local microplasticity of naïve and stress hematopoiesis
Summary
Researchers developed imaging approaches to visualize the spatial organization of normal and stress-induced blood cell production in bone marrow, revealing the resilient anatomy and local microplasticity — structural adaptability at small scales — that allows hematopoiesis to maintain output under physiological stress.
ABSTRACT The bone marrow has an extraordinary capacity to adjust blood cell production to meet physiological demands in response to insults. The spatial organization of normal and stress responses is largely unknown due to the lack of methods to visualize most steps of blood production. Here we develop strategies to image multipotent hematopoiesis, megakaryopoiesis, erythropoiesis, and lymphopoiesis in mice. We combine these with imaging of myelopoiesis 1 to define the anatomy of hematopoiesis in homeostasis, after acute insults, and during geriatric age. Blood production takes place via long-range migration of multipotent progenitors away from stem cells. Lineage-committed progenitors are then serially recruited to blood vessels where they contribute to lineage-specific microanatomical structures, composed of progenitors and immature cells, which function as production lines for mature blood cells. This anatomy is durable and resilient to insults as it was maintained after hemorrhage, acute bacterial infection, and with aging. Production lines enable hematopoietic plasticity as they differentially -and selectively-modulate their numbers and output in response to acute insults and then return to homeostasis. In geriatric mice the number of production lines is maintained, but their microanatomy becomes permanently remodeled in a cell- and lineage-specific manner indicating chronic anatomical adaptations to hematopoietic aging. Our studies uncover the sophisticated and durable anatomy of blood production -defined by distinct migratory behaviors depending on the maturation stage- and identify discrete microanatomical production lines that confer plasticity to hematopoiesis.
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