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This research aims to understand how stress influences erythroid progenitors during maturation and their implications for blood production.

April 1, 2026Blood Advances0 citationsOpen Access

In response to stress: quicker, yet bigger

JPJames PalisUniversity of Rochester Medical Center

Key Points

This research aims to understand how stress influences erythroid progenitors during maturation and their implications for blood production.
Analyzed erythroid progenitors under stress conditions, such as erythropoietin exposure and hypoxia.
Examined cell cycle duration and size during maturation stages of erythroid progenitors.
Utilized flow cytometry to quantify surface immunophenotypes of erythroid cells.
Maturing erythroid progenitors show a progressive shortening of their cell cycle under normal conditions.
In response to stress, maturation speed and cell size significantly increase in erythroid progenitors.
Over 80% of red blood cells in the body require an effective blood production system, highlighted by these findings.

Abstract

In this issue of Blood Advances, Winward et al 1 determined that (1) maturing erythroid progenitors normally undergo a progressive shortening of the cell cycle and increased cell size and (2) these characteristics are accelerated in response to stress (ie, exposure to erythropoietin or hypoxia).More than 8 out of 10 cells in the human body are red blood cells. 2 Given their limited life span, maintaining these prodigious cell numbers requires an expansive and responsive system of blood production.Erythropoiesis is comprised of 3 progressive compartments (see figure).The first is comprised of lineage-committed progenitors, termed burst-forming unit erythroid (BFU-E) and colonyforming unit erythroid (CFU-E) based on their in vitro ability to generate large and small colonies, respectively, of erythroid cells.The second compartment is a series of morphologically identifiable erythroblast precursors that execute a program of terminal maturation that includes accumulation of hemoglobin and loss of internal organelles.The final compartment is comprised of reticulocytes, derived from the enucleation of late-stage erythroblasts, that ultimately complete their maturational program in the bloodstream to become mature red blood cells.Cells within all 3 compartments have in recent years been defined by their surface immunophenotype, which facilitates their quantitative analysis using flow cytometry-based approaches. 3,4

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