Figure 5.
IFN-γ treatment of Fanca–/– recipients is sufficient to allow long-term engraftment of syngeneic WT bone marrow cells. Six months following transplantation with CD45.1+ WT donor BM nucleated cells, selected recipients from a second cohort of (A) Fanca–/– or (B) Fancg–/– mice received transplants from secondary recipients to verify that the engrafting CD45.1 donor cells were long-term repopulating stem cells. The CD45.1+ chimerism of each primary recipient (left panels) and the chimerism of 3 secondary recipients (right panels) from each respective primary recipient are indicated. Bars represent the mean CD45.1+ chimerism. *P < .001 comparing chimerism of Fanca–/– and Fancg–/– recipients treated with IFN-γ versus vehicle-treated Fanca–/– and Fancg–/– recipients.