Circulating tumor cell-blood cell crosstalk: Biology and clinical relevance

T Pereira-Veiga, S Schneegans, K Pantel, H Wikman - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are the seeds of distant metastasis, and the number of CTCs
detected in the blood of cancer patients is associated with a worse prognosis. CTCs face …

Platelet and megakaryocyte roles in innate and adaptive immunity

M Koupenova, AC Livada, CN Morrell - Circulation research, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Classically, platelets have been described as the cellular blood component that mediates
hemostasis and thrombosis. This important platelet function has received significant …

Pulmonary and cardiac pathology in African American patients with COVID-19: an autopsy series from New Orleans

SE Fox, A Akmatbekov, JL Harbert, G Li… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spread rapidly
across the USA, causing extensive morbidity and mortality, particularly in the African …

Single-cell multi-omics of human clonal hematopoiesis reveals that DNMT3A R882 mutations perturb early progenitor states through selective hypomethylation

AS Nam, N Dusaj, F Izzo, R Murali, RM Myers… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Somatic mutations in cancer genes have been detected in clonal expansions across healthy
human tissue, including in clonal hematopoiesis. However, because mutated and wild-type …

Neutrophil “plucking” on megakaryocytes drives platelet production and boosts cardiovascular disease

T Petzold, Z Zhang, I Ballesteros, I Saleh, A Polzin… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Intravascular neutrophils and platelets collaborate in maintaining host integrity, but their
interaction can also trigger thrombotic complications. We report here that cooperation …

Single-cell analysis of ploidy and the transcriptome reveals functional and spatial divergency in murine megakaryopoiesis

S Sun, C Jin, J Si, Y Lei, K Chen, Y Cui… - Blood, The Journal …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
Megakaryocytes (MKs), the platelet progenitor cells, play important roles in hematopoietic
stem cell (HSC) maintenance and immunity. However, it is not known whether these diverse …

Differences and similarities between cancer and somatic stem cells: therapeutic implications

F Rossi, H Noren, R Jove, V Beljanski… - Stem cell research & …, 2020 - Springer
Over the last decades, the cancer survival rate has increased due to personalized therapies,
the discovery of targeted therapeutics and novel biological agents, and the application of …

[HTML][HTML] Decoding human megakaryocyte development

H Wang, J He, C Xu, X Chen, H Yang, S Shi, C Liu… - Cell stem cell, 2021 - cell.com
Despite our growing understanding of embryonic immune development, rare early
megakaryocytes (MKs) remain relatively understudied. Here we used single-cell RNA …

Human bone marrow organoids for disease modeling, discovery, and validation of therapeutic targets in hematologic malignancies

AO Khan, A Rodriguez-Romera, JS Reyat, AA Olijnik… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
A lack of models that recapitulate the complexity of human bone marrow has hampered
mechanistic studies of normal and malignant hematopoiesis and the validation of novel …

Erythroid/megakaryocytic differentiation confers BCL-XL dependency and venetoclax resistance in acute myeloid leukemia

H Kuusanmäki, O Dufva, M Vähä-Koskela, AM Leppä… - Blood, 2023 - ashpublications.org
Myeloid neoplasms with erythroid or megakaryocytic differentiation include pure erythroid
leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome with erythroid features, and acute megakaryoblastic …