ERC Starting Grant · 2024
The impact of human aged bone marrow niche on human hematopoietic stem cell function
In humans, aging of the hematopoietic system is associated with anaemia, impaired immune responses and increased frequency of myeloid malignancies. The hematopoietic system is maintained by hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). HSCs reside in the bone marrow (BM) within specialized niches, where they self-renew and differentiate to produce all blood and immune cells. In the clinical setting of BM transplantation, HSCs from older donors result in a reduced transplantation success, with a worse level of engraftment and higher overall mortality. This demonstrates that there is a reduction in the function of aged human HSCs (hHSCs). Causes of this impaired hHSC function with age still remain…
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