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Idiopathic sideroblastic anemia: presence of sideroblastic changes in the erythropoietic precursors cultured from peripheral blood.

Peripheral blood mononuclear cells from five patients with idiopathic sideroblastic anemia were examined in clonal culture for circulating erythropoietic precursors. Three of these patients had relatively mild anemia and revealed significant burst formation. Two patients who had severe anemia and required regular blood transfusions showed severe diminution or absence of circulating precursors. These results could suggest that the number of circulating erythropoietic precursors reflects effective erythropoiesis in the marrow. Ultrastructural morphology and ultrastructural Prussian-blue staining of the bursts from a patient revealed the characteristic mitochondrial deposition of ferrugionous material in pathologic normoblasts. Peripheral blood clonal cell cultures would, therefore, appear to be a potentially useful tool for analysis of biochemical abnormalities in idiopathic sideroblastic anemia.

Aged

Cardiovascular correlates of attention in normal and psychiatrically disturbed children. Blood pressure, peripheral blood flow, and peripheral vascular resistance.

Blood pressure, peripheral blood flow, and peripheral vascular resistance were measured in normal adults and children and in children with autism and severe disturbances in personality development while the individuals were engaged in a variety of attentional tasks. The tasks were designed to elicit outward direction of attention (and intake of sensory input) or inward direction of attention (and relative rejection of external sensory input). During tasks involving sensory rejection, normal adults and normal children showed increased blood flow and decreased peripheral vascular resistance; with sensory intake, blood flow was decreased and resistance was increased. The most severely impaired children showed little alteration in their physiological response to task requirements. Autistic children had higher mean blood flow and lower peripheral vascular resistance than normal children and adults. Some autistic children characteristically may be in a state of sensory rejection associated with generally higher levels of arousal or defense against environmental bombardment.

Adolescent

Dermatitis herpetiformis: lymphocytes, immunoglobulins and complement factors in peripheral blood.

Peripheral blood lymphocytes from patients with dermatitis herpetiformis and healthy controls were investigated in order to determine the percentages of B-lymphocytes, T-lymphocytes and cells with receptors for the Fc part of human IgG (EA-RFC). Furthermore, the serum concentrations of IgG, IgA, IgM, IgD and IgE and the complement factors C3 and C4 were also measured. An increase in the mean percentages of lymphocytes with membrane-bound IgA and IgD, as well as an increase in the mean percentage of cells with receptors for the Fc part of human IgG (EA-RFC) were found in the patient group as compared with the control group. No differences between patient group and control group were found concerning the mean percentage of B-lymphocytes or T-lymphocytes. The mean serum concentrations of the various immunoglobulins and the complement factors investigated did not differ significantly between the two groups.

Adolescent

Capillary-venous hematocrit differences in newborn infants. I. Relationship to blood volume, peripheral blood flow, and acid base parameters.

Venous and capillary hematocrit, acid base values, and circulatory parameters were measured simultaneously in 92 newborn infants within six hours of birth. Gestational age ranged from 26 to 41 weeks. The capillary/venous hematocrit ratio (Hctc/Hctv) was greater than 1.00 in 89 infants. We found significant inverse correlations between Hctc/Hctv and several parameters, such as pH (r = -0.82), standard bicarbonate (r = -0.73), systolic blood pressure (r = -0.51), and peripheral blood flow (r = -0.70). Most of the infants with a Hctc/Hctv of 1.20 and above had red cell mass values of less than 35 ml/kg. However, blood volume apparently did not influence the Hctc/Hctv. Gestational age appeared to affect Hctc/Hctv only before 30 weeks, when compared with the Hctc/Hctv of term infants. Our results indicate that disturbed circulation, and in particular, disturbed microcirculation is involved in the development of high Hctc/Hctv ratios. We strongly advise that hematocrits obtained by skin prick from a sick newborn infant should not be relied on as they may give misleading information on oxygen carrying capacity to vital organs.

Acid-Base Equilibrium

Peripheral circulation in the newborn: interaction of peripheral blood flow, blood pressure, blood volume, and blood viscosity.

Peripheral blood flow and systolic blood pressure (strain-gauge plethysmograph), blood volume (Evans blue) and whole blood viscosity (cone-plate viscometer) have been measured in 66 premature and full-term infants 6 to 144h of age. Blood flow and blood volume were moderately decreased in the infants with respiratory distress. Highly significant (P less than 0.001) correlations were found between blood flow and blood volume (r = 0.77), blood pressure and blood volume (r = 0.50), peripheral resistance and blood volume (r = -0.44), blood flow and blood pressure (r = 0.50), blood flow and peripheral resistance (r = -0.67), peripheral resistance and blood viscosity (r = 0.45), and blood viscosity and haematocrit (r = 0.86). There was no correlation between peripheral blood flow and blood viscosity. However, at given blood volume, peripheral blood flow decreased with increasing blood viscosity. These results indicate that in newborn infants peripheral blood flow, blood pressure and peripheral resistance are influenced by blood volume, but also depend on blood viscosity.

Blood Circulation

Immunologic parameters in childhood Hodgkin's disease II. T and B lymphocytes in the peripheral blood of normal children and in the spleen and peripheral blood of children with Hodgkin's disease.

A study of peripheral blood lymphocyte populations in 27 children with Hodgkin's disease (HD) and 13 age-matched control subjects is presented. The absolute numbers and percentages of T and B lymphocytes identified by their surface marker characteristics were determined. In addition, in 13 HD children the percentages of T and B lymphocytes were estimated in the spleens removed at staging laparotomy. No differences were observed between the total peripheral blood lymphocyte counts of HD and control children, and we found no evidence of progressive lymphopenia with advancing stages of the disease. No decrease in the numbers of peripheral blood T lymphocytes was seen in this group of HD children. In contrast, the proportions and absolute numbers of B lymphocytes tended to be significantly lower in the children with HD than in the control subjects. In 9 of the 13 spleens studied high percentages of T lymphocytes were seen; low percentage of B lymphocytes were found in all spleens examined.

Adolescent

Studies on the peripheral blood and the in vitro response of peripheral blood lymphocytes to common mitogens in Macaca speciosa.

In a longitudinal study on 13 adult female stumptailed macaques, Macaca speciosa, peripheral blood samples were analyzed hematologically and the in vitro response of the lymphocytes to the common mitogens concanavalin A, phytohemagglutinin and pokeweed mitogen were investigated. The results showed that the total leukocyte and differential counts in each animal remained quite stable throughout the 3-month experiment. The responses in culture to the mitogens showed that there were differences in the stimulation obtained by each mitogen and that the animals may be placed into high, medium and low groups based on differences in their level of response.

Animals

Increased ferritin synthesis and release by Hodgkin's disease peripheral blood lymphocytes.

Peripheral blood lymphocytes from patients with all stages of untreated Hodgkin's disease and from normal healthy adults were shown to synthesize and release ferritin in vitro. Ferritin synthesis was confirmed by immunoelectrophoresis, double immunodiffusion and autoradiography. Hodgkin's disease lymphocytes synthesized ferritin 4.2 times faster and released it 2.4 times faster than did normal lymphocytes, whereas total protein synthesis was faster in normal lymphocytes. Patients with nodular sclerosis and perhaps those with absence of fever had the highest synthetic rates; however no relationship was observed between relative rates of lymphocyte ferritin synthesis and sex, age, anatomical stage and presence of splenic or hepatic involvement by tumor. Addition of iron to normal human lymphocytes produced little or no change in ferritin synthesis. These data indicate that part of the intracellular ferritin detected in peripheral blood lymphocytes from patients with Hodgkin's disease and from normal individuals resulted from de novo synthesis rather than from uptake and storage of serum ferritin, and suggests that elevated ferritin levels detected in the serum and tumor tissue of Hodgkin's disease patients originate from lymphocytes.

Adult

[Intracellular cAMP concentration in isolated cells of white blood cell series of peripheral blood and bone marrow in healthy subjects and patients with different proliferative syndromes].

The level of cAMP was determined in isolated cells from bone marrow and peripheral blood of healthy subjects and patients with proliferative syndrome (acute and chronic myeloid leukaemia and chronic lymphatic leukaemia). In the investigations tritiated cAMP (3H-cAMP) was used and for binding of endogenous as well as exogenous cAMP protein isolated from bovine muscles was used. The mean cAMP level in peripheral blood granulocytes of healthy subjects was 27.90+/-3.82 pmol/10(7) cells and in normal lymphocytes it was from 11 to 18 pmol/10(7) cells. Much higher concentrations of cAMP: 56.4+/-16.25 and 52.7+/-11.02 pmol/10(7) cells were observed in myelocytes and metamyelocytes isolated from the bone marrow of healthy subjects. Lowering of cAMP concentration (below 4 pmol/10(7) cells) was observed in the lymphocytes of patients with chronic lymphatic leukaemia, while a higher cAMP concentration (above 90 pmol/10(7) cells) was found in the myeloblasts of patients with acute myeloid leukaemia.

Bone Marrow

Hemopoietic precursor cells in human peripheral blood.

Human peripheral blood contains two types of stem cells that differentiate along the granulocytic pathway. They are separable by their ability to form colonies in agar in vitro (CFU-C) and in plasma clots in diffusion chambers in vivo (CFU-DG). Kinetic studies suggest that CFU-DG represents an intermediate between the still hypothetical human pluripotent stem cell and CFU-C.

Animals

Suppressor cells in rabbit peripheral blood.

Rabbit peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL) added to cultures of autologous spleen cells, primed in vivo to sheep red cells, are able to suppress with high efficacy the secondary in vitro response of the spleen cells to that antigen. Removal of nylon wool adherent cells from PBL abolishes the suppressive effect. When the PBL are fractionated by velocity sedimentation the suppressor cells can be separated from the responding cells. The circulating lymphocytes, freed from the inhibiting effect, either by nylon wool absorption or by velocity sedimentation fractionation, are able to give a strong secondary in vitro anti-SRC response, in which the long latency period, usually observed when PBL are stimulated with antigen in culture, is abolished or at least reduced. The suppressor effect present in the PBL is not due to granulocytes, platelets or erythrocytes.

Animals

Interaction of influenza A virus with human peripheral blood lymphocytes.

Peripheral blood lymphocytes cultured in the presence of phytohemagglutinin, concanavalin A, or pokeweed mitogen were exposed in vitro to influenza A virus. The synthesis of several virus-specific proteins, including the nucleoprotein, membrane protein, and nonstructural 1 protein were detected, although no infectious virus was produced by the lymphocyte cultures. Evidence was obtained that only a subpopulation of mitogen-transformed cells would support virus protein synthesis. A comparison of the interactions of influenza A virus with lymphocytes from normal individuals and from rheumatoid arthritis patients showed that the same range of virus-specific proteins were made, in similar quantities, regardless of the source of lymphocytes.

Arthritis, Rheumatoid

Rosette formation of pig peripheral blood lymphocytes with sheep red blood cells.

Peripheral blood lymphocytes of normal young pigs formed spontaneous and EAC rosettes with sheep red blood cells. Pretreatment of the SRBC with a sulphydryl reagent increased the percentage of spontaneous rosettes and the number of SRBC bound by the lymphocytes. The influence of an incubation period prior to centrifugation and the duration and temperature of the following incubation were tested for spontaneous and EAC rosettes. The importance is stressed to define the number of bound SRBC to call a lymphocyte a "rosette-forming cell". Rosette formation is interpreted as a quantitative rather than a qualitative marker.

Animals

Thyroglobulin and microsomal autoantibody production by cultures of Hashimoto peripheral blood lymphocytes.

Peripheral blood lymphocytes from patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis have been cultured for 2--3 weeks in Marbrook flasks. During this period, readily detectable amounts of thyroglobulin and microsomal antibodies were synthesized by the cells and secreted into the culture medium. Gel filtration studies indicated that the autoantibodies produced in culture were of a similar molceular weight to the serum antibodies and this provided evidence that autoantibody synthesis in vitro was representative of autoantibody synthesis in vivo. Our data suggest that this culture technique may be used to make a detailed investigation of the human autoimmune disease process.

Adult

Evaluation of dried blood spots relative to peripheral blood mononuclear cells for intracellular tenofovir-diphosphate and emtricitabine-triphosphate assessment using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

Tenofovir alafenamide/emtricitabine (TAF/FTC) is widely used for HIV treatment and prevention. Their intracellular metabolites, tenofovir-diphosphate (TFV-DP) and emtricitabine-triphosphate (FTC-TP), provide informative measures of drug exposure. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) are the primary matrix for these measurements; however, their isolation is labor-intensive, limiting clinical applicability. This study evaluated dried blood spots (DBS) for assessing intracellular TFV-DP and FTC-TP exposure relative to PBMCs. Paired PBMC and DBS samples (n&#x202f;=&#x202f;124) were analyzed using a validated LC-MS/MS method. Moderate correlations were observed between DBS and PBMC concentrations for TFV-DP (r&#x202f;=&#x202f;0.44, p&#x202f;<&#x202f;0.0001) and FTC-TP (r&#x202f;=&#x202f;0.27, p&#x202f;=&#x202f;0.0025), with stronger correlations in the central 80% of participants based on the DBS-to-PBMC concentration ratios (r&#x202f;=&#x202f;0.61 and 0.44, respectively). Log-transformed Bland-Altman analysis, with more than 90% of samples falling within the 95% limits of agreement. Additionally, concentration distributions across different virological statuses were similar between DBS and PBMC. DBS samples (n&#x202f;=&#x202f;44) were also collected at baseline and on day 29 from people with HIV receiving TAF/FTC in combination with isoniazid plus rifapentine (1HP) to demonstrate the applicability of DBS for investigating potential drug-drug interactions (DDIs). In conclusion, the observed moderate correlations between DBS and PBMC concentrations of TFV-DP and FTC-TP suggest that DBS may serve as a feasible sampling approach for population-level assessment of intracellular TFV-DP and FTC-TP exposure. The simplicity of DBS sample collection and handling may facilitate large-scale clinical studies and highlights its potential utility in future clinical research.

Dried blood spots