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We are grateful to Roxann H&#233;tu-Arbour for assistance with the figure design and demonstration of the procedures. Research in the lab was supported by a Transition award from the Cole Foundation, Discovery grant no. 419226-2012 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI Leaders Fund grant no. 31377). KMH is a Chercheur-Boursier Junior for the Fonds de recherche du Qu&#233;bec - Sant&#233; (FRQS).

All procedures described in this protocol have been approved by the institutional animal ethics committee and follow the Canadian Council on Animal Care guidelines.
Note: To maintain sterile/specific pathogen-free housing conditions, conduct all procedures involving direct handling of live mice inside a biological safety cabinet or a laminar flow hood. Clean or sterilize cages, restraining devices, housing materials, chow and water provided to the animals appropriately. Use only sterile, dispo...

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The protocol described here is designed to evaluate the relative fitness of donor (test) HSCs against known competitor HSCs. The situation of competition increases the relative sensitivity of the assay (more likely to detect moderate decreases in stem cell fitness) and provides an internal technical control for the efficacy of irradiation and injection. However, it should not be used as an absolute measure of HSC fitness; a decrease in competitive reconstitution does not automatically mean that the HSCs would not perform...

Hematopoiesis is a regenerative process that ensures the replenishing of blood cells that have been lost through injury, radiation and cell death. This process is ensured by hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) that largely reside in the adult bone marrow. In addition, hematopoietic stem cells can be used for therapeutic purposes in autoimmune disorders, hematological malignancies and immunodeficiencies1. There is thus a need to better understand the mechanisms that regulate HSC function, including their proliferative expansion and their ability to reach and engraft the recipient bone marrow after transplant. Although recent studies have reported several cell surface markers, including the SLAM family members CD150 and CD48, to prospectively enrich adult HSCs and fetal HSCs to approximately 50% purity2-4, the gold standard measure for functional HSCs remains an in vivo repopulating assay to determine their ability to re-establish blood cell production in an irradiated host5.
The in vivo clonal repopulating assay was initially developed by Till and McCulloch6 and has since been refined and expanded. As originally defined, HSCs ensure lifelong blood cell production through self-renewal and differentiation. The transfer of HSCs into an irradiated recipient thus allows us to assess: their ability to differentiate through the analysis of the different blood cell lineages (T lymphocytes, B lymphocytes, granulocytes, monocytes) and their capacity for self-renewal through serial transplantation. The assay would usually involve the comparison of the functionality and/or quantity of two populations of HSCs, e.g., cells coming from two mice of different genotypes or cells that have been treated or untreated with different factors that could influence the maintenance or expansion of HSCs in culture. Donor chimerism, or the contribution of transferred donor HSCs to blood cell production can then be determined by flow cytometry analysis in the peripheral blood and bone marrow using cell surface markers or other methods that will distinguish donor cells from the recipient, or host. The most widely used markers are certainly the two alleles for the gene Ptprc or CD45 leukocyte antigen7 that we have chosen for the examples provided below.
The clonal repopulation assay can be either competitive or non-competitive. In a non-competitive setting, control and test HSCs are transferred into separate recipient mice and the outcome for each cell type will be independent of the other. In a competitive setting, the function of both test and control HSCs is measured against a population of competitor HSCs. The protocol described here uses the competitive setting but can also be adapted for non-competitive situations. Both approaches have their advantages and limitations, and we will compare them in detail in the discussion. We also describe different approaches to ensure equity in the number of transplanted HSCs, explain how to adapt the assay for the quantification of HSCs by limiting dilution assay (LDA), and provide examples of both successful and unsuccessful transplants for the interpretation of results.

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			<td height="44" style="height:44px;width:216px;">Microtainer tubes with K2EDTA</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">BD Biosciences</td>
			<td style="width:112px;"></td>
			<td style="width:119px;">365974</td>
			<td style="width:167px;"></td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:216px;">20G needle</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">BD Syringe</td>
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			<td>For blood sampling from the mandibular vein</td>
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			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:216px;">LabQuake Shaker rotisserie</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">Thermo&#160; Scientific</td>
			<td style="width:112px;"></td>
			<td style="width:119px;">C415110</td>
			<td>Any other rotating mixer will work as well to prevent coagulation of blood samples</td>
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			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:216px;">Purified anti-mouse CD16/CD32 (clone 2.4G2, Fc Block)</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">BD Biosciences</td>
			<td style="width:112px;">2.50</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">553142</td>
			<td>Alternatively use clone 93 from eBioscience (cat # 14-0161) or Biolegend (cat# 101310)&#160;</td>
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			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:216px;">Pe-Cy7-conjugated anti-mouse CD3e (clone 145-2C11)</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">eBioscience</td>
			<td style="width:112px;">0.25</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">25-0031</td>
			<td>For most flow cytometry antibodies, the clone is important but the colours and companies can vary depending on the available equipment</td>
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			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:216px;">PE-conjugated anti-mouse CD19 (clone 1D3)</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">eBioscience</td>
			<td style="width:112px;">0.25</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">12-0193</td>
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			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:216px;">APC-eFluor780 (APC-Cy7 equivalent)-conjugated anti-mouse GR1 (clone RB6-8C5)</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">eBioscience</td>
			<td style="width:112px;">0.25</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">47-5931</td>
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			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:216px;">FITC-conjugate anti-mouse CD45.1 (clone A20)</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">eBioscience</td>
			<td style="width:112px;">2.50</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">11-0453</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:216px;">eFluor450-conjugated anti-mouse CD45.2 (clone 104)</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">eBioscience</td>
			<td style="width:112px;">1.00</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">48-0454</td>
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			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:216px;">Biotinylated anti-human/mouse CD45R (B220) (clone RA3-6B2)</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">eBioscience</td>
			<td style="width:112px;">1.25</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">13-0452</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:216px;">Biotinylated anti-mouse CD3e (clone 145-2C11)</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">eBioscience</td>
			<td style="width:112px;">1.25</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">13-0031</td>
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			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:216px;">Biotinylated anti-mouse CD11b (clone M1/70)</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">eBioscience</td>
			<td style="width:112px;">1.25</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">13-0112</td>
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			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:216px;">Biotinylated anti-mouse GR1 (clone RB6-8C5)</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">eBioscience</td>
			<td style="width:112px;">1.25</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">13-5931</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:216px;">Biotinylated anti-mouse TER119 (clone TER119)</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">eBioscience</td>
			<td style="width:112px;">0.63</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">13-5921</td>
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			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:216px;">V500 streptavidin</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">BD Biosciences</td>
			<td style="width:112px;">0.50</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">561419</td>
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			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:216px;">PE-conjugated anti-mouse CD117 (clone 2B8)</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">BD Biosciences</td>
			<td style="width:112px;">0.25</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">553355</td>
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			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:216px;">PE-Cy7-conjugated anti-mouse Ly6A/E (Sca1) (clone D7)</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">BD Biosciences</td>
			<td style="width:112px;">0.25</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">558162</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:216px;">PerCP-eFluor710-conjugated anti-mouse CD135 (clone A2F10)</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">eBioscience</td>
			<td style="width:112px;">0.50</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">46-1351</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:216px;">Alexa fluor 647-conjugated anti-mouse CD150 (clone TC15-12F12.2)</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">Biolegend</td>
			<td style="width:112px;">0.63</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">115918</td>
			<td>BD Biosciences and eBioscience do not carry the same clone</td>
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			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:216px;">1ml tuberculin syringe with 27G needle</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">BD Syringe</td>
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			<td style="width:119px;">309623</td>
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			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:216px;">1ml tuberculin syringe with 25G needle</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">BD Syringe</td>
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			<td style="width:119px;">309626</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:216px;">70 um cell strainer</td>
			<td style="width:89px;">BD Falcon</td>
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			<td style="width:119px;">352350</td>
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competitive transplants to evaluate hematopoietic stem cell fitness

The gold standard definition of a hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) is a cell that when transferred into an irradiated recipient will have the ability to reestablish blood cell production for the lifespan of the recipient. This protocol explains how to set up a functional assay to compare the HSC capacities of two different populations of cells, such as bone marrow from mice of two different genotypes, and how to analyze the recipient mice by flow cytometry. The protocol uses HSC equivalents rather than cell sorting for standardization and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches. We further discuss different variations to the basic protocol, including serial transplants, limiting dilution assays, homing assays and non-competitive transplants, including the advantages and preferred uses of these varied approaches. These assays are central for the study of HSC function and could be used not only for the investigation of fundamental HSC intrinsic aspects of biology but also for the development of preclinical assays for bone marrow transplant and HSC expansion in culture.

A general description of the competitive transplant setting, including secondary transplants (discussed further below) can be found in Figure 1. A representative analysis for pre-transplant bone marrow HSCs can be found in Figure 2. More detailed information on the exclusion of doublets and dead cells can be found elsewhere9.
Figures 3 and 4 provide e...

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