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N Nara

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PubMed1981

Effects of leukemic cells on hematopoiesis in radiation-induced murine erythroleukemia.

Erythroleukemia occurred in a BCF1 mouse after X-irradiation. This leukemia was maintained by leukemic cell transplantation successively without changes in the characters of leukemia. According to leukemic cell proliferation, peripheral blood leukemic cells increased in number, and anemia and granulocytopenia developed. Following leukemic cell infiltration, granuloid-committed stem cells (CFU-C) in bone marrow decreased but those in spleen increased. Neither leukemic cells nor leukemic cell-conditioned medium inhibited CFU-C culture in vitro. Effects of leukemic cells on hematopoiesis were discussed.

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Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor-dependent growth of an acute myeloblastic leukemia cell line.

We report herein the establishment and characterization of a granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)-dependent acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) cell line. The cell line, designated as OCI/AML 1a, has been cultured in the presence of G-CSF and has shown exponential growth for over two years. The cells growing in suspension culture resembled myeloblasts on the basis of morphologic, cytochemical and surface phenotypic analyses. Other CSFs, interleukin-3 and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor did not support the growth of OCI/AML 1a cells so well as G-CSF. The effect on the growth of OCI/AML 1a cells of G-CSF was almost completely abolished by neutralizing monoclonal anti-G-CSF antibody. These findings showed that OCI/AML 1a cells required G-CSF for growth. OCI/AML 1a cell line will be valuable for studies of the biological nature, proliferation and differentiation of leukemic cells. Furthermore, OCI/AML 1a cells should be useful for determining the mechanism by which G-CSF induces the growth of hemopoietic cells.

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Fatal strongyloidiasis latent over 42 years in the antineoplastic chemotherapy of a case with malignant lymphoma.

A 66-year-old man with non-Hodgkin lymphoma died of strongyloides hyperinfection following antineoplastic chemotherapy. The patient had a military service in Micronesia in World War II where he was supposed to acquire strongyloidiasis. Here we stress the utility of bronchoscopic examination and importance of patients' lives in tropical climates in immunocompromised patients.

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Successful treatment of a patient with posthepatitic severe aplastic anemia with bolus methylprednisolone.

A 31-year-old female developed severe aplastic anemia following acute non-A non-B hepatitis. Because of the impossibility of bone marrow transplantation, bolus methylprednisolone therapy was done. Soon after the therapy, pancytopenia improved. She has since taken mepitiostane and no longer needs blood transfusions. Good response to the immunosuppressive therapy suggests that the pathogenesis of this anemia is related to the immune system. In vitro culture demonstrated that the patient's serum contained a factor which suppressed hematopoietic activity, possibly gamma-interferon.

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The in vitro effect of vincristine on the blast cell renewal in acute myeloblastic leukemia.

The goal of chemotherapy for acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) may only be achieved by eradicating the self-renewal capacity of the blast progenitors. In this regard, chemotherapeutic drugs should be screened according to their effects against self-renewal. The present report was aimed to study the effect of the vinca alkaloid, vincristine (VCR), on the terminal divisions and self-renewal of the blast progenitors. A primary colony assay was utilized to reflect the former and a secondary colony assay and suspension culture to reflect the latter in AML patients. The results indicated that in many of the cases studied, VCR was considered to be almost equally toxic to terminal divisions and self-renewal of the blast progenitors. An almost equivalent cytotoxicity of VCR was also noted against normal hematopoietic cells, assessed by colony-forming unit granulocyte-macrophage (CFU-GM) assay. This study suggested that successful chemotherapy with VCR may be more easily achieved in combination with other drugs that are highly inhibitory to the self-renewal of the blast progenitors.

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