PUBLICATION

Visualizing human Hematopoietic stem cell trafficking in vivo using a zebrafish xenograft model

Authors
Staal, F., Spaink, H., Fibbe, W.E.
ID
ZDB-PUB-151210-2
Date
2016
Source
Stem cells and development   25(4): 360-5 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Spaink, Herman P.
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Cell Differentiation*
  • Cell Lineage
  • Cell Movement*
  • Cell Tracking/methods*
  • Embryo, Nonmammalian/cytology
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation*
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cells/cytology*
  • Heterografts/cytology*
  • Humans
  • Models, Biological
  • Stromal Cells/metabolism
  • Zebrafish/metabolism*
PubMed
26650921 Full text @ Stem Cells Dev.
Abstract
Zebrafish is gaining increased popularity as a model organism to study stem cell biology. It also is widely used as model system to visualize human leukemic stem cells. However, xeno transplantation of primary human stem/progenitor cells has not been described. Here we use casper pigmentation mutant fish that are transparent crossed to fli-GFP transgenic fish as recipients of red labelled human CD34+ cells. We have investigated various conditions and protocols with the aim to monitor and visualize the fate of transplanted human CD34+ cells. We here report successful use of casper mutant zebrafish embryos for the direct monitoring of human HSC transplantation, differentiation and trafficking in vivo.
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Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
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Orthology
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Mapping