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Comment
. 2010 Nov;120(11):3813-5.
doi: 10.1172/JCI45060. Epub 2010 Oct 25.

Pharmacologic eigenvalues: beating the rap on bone marrow failure

Stephen G Emerson  1 , Russell W Garrett
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Pharmacologic eigenvalues: beating the rap on bone marrow failure

Stephen G Emerson et al. J Clin Invest. 2010 Nov.

Abstract

Patients suffering from sustained acute or chronic illness often have decreased white blood cell and platelet counts as well as anemia, and bone marrow studies routinely show only decreased numbers of blood precursor cells. While much has been recently learned about the cause of isolated anemia, the pathogenesis of true bone marrow failure (i.e., low bone marrow cellularity and low counts in multiple blood lineages) has remained elusive. In this issue of the JCI, Chen et al. present evidence that overactivation of mammalian target of rapamycin signaling in HSCs is found in two mouse models of bone marrow failure, and they show that treatment with rapamycin significantly normalizes the low blood counts.

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