Journal
TOXICOLOGIC PATHOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 3, Pages 336-347Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0192623318766458
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bone marrow; hematopoiesis; image analysis; histopathology; cytology
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- Genentech Inc.
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The bone marrow is an important site for assessment of the hematopoietic toxicity of new drug candidates. Here, we extended our previous work, where we developed a computer algorithm to automatically quantitate overall bone marrow cell density by analyzing digitized images of standard hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) slides of rat bone marrow and further evaluated the capability to quantify myeloid: erythroid + lymphoid (M:EL) ratio and megakaryocyte cell density. We tested the algorithm in a toxicity study, where rats were dosed with two molecules known to affect bone marrow composition, monomethyl auristatin E, and a Bcl-xL inhibitor. The image analysis method detected significant changes in M:EL and megakaryocyte number that were either not found or semiquantitatively described by manual microscopic observation of the same slides. The image analysis results were consistent with other more established but time-consuming methods that measure changes in bone marrow cell composition: smear cytology, flow cytometry, and microscopic assessment. Our work demonstrates the feasibility of a rapid and more quantitative assessment of changes in bone marrow cell lineage composition using a computer algorithm compared to microscopic examination of H&E-stained bone marrow sections.
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