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ReviewStem cells (Dayton, Ohio)2025

Linking mitochondria, fatty acids, and hematopoietic stem cell expansion during infection: implications for aging and metabolic diseases.

Katherine Hampton, Alyssa Polski-Delve, Charlotte Hellmich, Stuart A Rushworth

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Review in Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Postbiotic metabolites fromExperimental and therapeutic medicine · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Katherine HamptonMetabolic Health Research Centre, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UQ, United Kingdom.
Alyssa Polski-DelveMetabolic Health Research Centre, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UQ, United Kingdom.
Charlotte HellmichMetabolic Health Research Centre, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UQ, United Kingdom.
Stuart A RushworthMetabolic Health Research Centre, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UQ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-3711-7558

Funding

BBSRC BB/X01889X/1 (Quadram Institute/University of East Anglia partnership)National Institute for Health and Care ResearchUKRI BBSRC Norwich Research Park Bioscience Doctoral Training Program BB/T008717/1UKRI MRC Project MR/T02934X/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In steady state, hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) reside quiescently in their hypoxic niche with minimal mitochondrial activity, maintaining characteristically low levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and instead favoring glycolysis to meet their low energy requirements. However, stress, such as acute infection, triggers a state of emergency hematopoiesis during which HSCs expand more rapidly to produce up to 10-fold more downstream differentiated immune cells. To cope with this demand, HSCs increase their energy production by switching from low ATP-yielding glycolysis to high ATP-yielding mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. It is this metabolic switch that enables rapid HSC expansion and differentiation into downstream progeny to increase the immune cell pool and effectively clear the infection. This metabolic switch relies on the sufficient availability of healthy mitochondria as well as fuel in the form of free fatty acids to drive the necessary production of cellular components. This concise review aims to focus on how HSCs increase their mitochondrial content and fuel ATP production via fatty acid oxidation and the impact of HSC dysfunction during aging and other metabolic diseases.

Indexed as

AgingFatty AcidsHematopoietic Stem CellsMetabolic DiseasesMitochondriaAdenosine TriphosphateAnimalsHumansAdenosine TriphosphateFatty Acidsacute myelogenous leukemiaadiposeadult hematopoietic stem cellsbone marrowstem cell expansion

Identifiers

PMID40729343
PMCPMC12532312

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