hematopoietic system
• lethally-irradiated mice transplanted with mutant bone marrow and treated with doxycycline exhibit altered hematopoiesis, showing peripheral blood leukopenia, and changes in the distribution of mature hematopoietic lineages in the peripheral blood and spleen (reduction in B cells and monocytes, increase in neutrophils) and an increase in the frequency of progenitor cells in the bone marrow and spleen as well as the frequency of progenitor cells that are cycling in the bone marrow
• however, lethally-irradiated mice transplanted with mutant bone marrow and treated with doxycycline do not develop myelodysplastic syndrome or acute myeloid leukemia after at least 1 year of continuous doxycycline
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