hrp0098p1-57 | GH and IGFs 1 | ESPE2024

Long-term treatment with recombinant human growth hormone in pediatric patients influences but does not destroy stem cells circulating in peripheral blood

Wedrychowicz Anna , Sielatycka Katarzyna , Kucia Magda , Kubiś Ewa , Roztoczynska Dorota , B. Starzyk Jerzy

Objective: Very small embryonic/epiblast‐like stem cells (VSELs), found in human bone marrow and other adult tissues, also in circulating blood are small, non-hematopoietic cells expressing markers of pluripotent embryonic and primordial germ cells. VSELs are responsible for postnatal tissue and organ rejuvenation. It was reported that VSELs decreased after prolonged GH or IGF-1 administration in experimental animals and after prolonged IGF-1 administrati...