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ArticleCell death & disease2024

Macrophage depletion overcomes human hematopoietic cell engraftment failure in zebrafish embryo.

Reine El Omar, Naoill Abdellaoui, Safiatou T Coulibaly, Laura Fontenille, François Lanza, Christian Gachet, Jean-Noel Freund, Matteo Negroni, Karima Kissa, Manuela Tavian

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Article in Cell death & disease, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Small Fish, Big Answers: Zebrafish and the Molecular Drivers of Metastasis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Reine El OmarUniversity of Strasbourg, INSERM, EFS Grand-Est, BPPS UMR-S1255, Strasbourg, France.ORCID 0000-0002-8984-2022
Naoill AbdellaouiUniversity of Montpellier, VBIC, INSERM U1047, Montpellier, France.
Safiatou T CoulibalyUniversity of Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, UPR 9002, Strasbourg, France.
Laura FontenilleAZELEAD SAS, Montpellier, France.
François LanzaUniversity of Strasbourg, INSERM, EFS Grand-Est, BPPS UMR-S1255, Strasbourg, France.
Christian GachetUniversity of Strasbourg, INSERM, EFS Grand-Est, BPPS UMR-S1255, Strasbourg, France.ORCID 0000-0003-1303-4210
Jean-Noel FreundITI Innovec, Strasbourg, France.
Matteo NegroniUniversity of Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, UPR 9002, Strasbourg, France.
Karima Kissa *University of Montpellier, VBIC, INSERM U1047, Montpellier, France.
Manuela Tavian *University of Strasbourg, INSERM, EFS Grand-Est, BPPS UMR-S1255, Strasbourg, France. manuela.tavian@inserm.fr.ORCID 0000-0003-4746-3240
Inserm · FRCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRAmélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales · FR

Funding

Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French National Research Agency) ANR-14-CE11-0008Fondation ARC pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (ARC Foundation for Cancer Research) PJA 20131200190Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (Foundation for Medical Research in France) FDT20150532507Ligue Contre le Cancer Ligue Régionale EST
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Zebrafish is widely adopted as a grafting model for studying human development and diseases. Current zebrafish xenotransplantations are performed using embryo recipients, as the adaptive immune system, responsible for host versus graft rejection, only reaches maturity at juvenile stage. However, transplanted primary human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSC) rapidly disappear even in zebrafish embryos, suggesting that another barrier to transplantation exists before the onset of adaptive immunity. Here, using a labelled macrophage zebrafish line, we demonstrated that engraftment of human HSC induces a massive recruitment of macrophages which rapidly phagocyte transplanted cells. Macrophages depletion, by chemical or pharmacological treatments, significantly improved the uptake and survival of transplanted cells, demonstrating the crucial implication of these innate immune cells for the successful engraftment of human cells in zebrafish. Beyond identifying the reasons for human hematopoietic cell engraftment failure, this work images the fate of human cells in real time over several days in macrophage-depleted zebrafish embryos.

Indexed as

Hematopoietic Stem CellsHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationMacrophagesZebrafishAnimalsEmbryo, NonmammalianHumansPhagocytosisTransplantation, Heterologous

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PMID38693109
PMCPMC11063059
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