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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-5-8
pubmed:abstractText
Childhood T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is one of the most common childhood cancers. It is reported that preconditioning sublethally irradiated immunodeficient NOD/SCID (nonobese diabetic/X-linked severe combined immunodeficient) mice with human cord blood mononuclear cells facilitates the engraftment, expansion, and dissemination in these mice of primary T-ALL cells obtained from patients at the time of diagnosis. Cells recovered from mouse bone marrow or spleen resembled the original leukemia cells from patients with respect to surface lineage markers and T-cell receptor Vbeta gene rearrangements. Moreover, the pattern of leukemia dissemination in mouse tissues, resulting in universally fatal leukemia, is reminiscent of the human clinical disease. In addition, the fidelity of the model to the human disease is documented with regard to the presence of morphologically identifiable human leukemia cells in mouse bone marrow and blood and the maintenance of leukemia-initiating capacity within the leukemia-engrafted mouse. Therefore, several lines of independent approaches are used to suggest that the engrafted cells are of human leukemia origin and are not derived from cord blood. The in vivo model described here should enable the study of the growth properties of primary T-ALL cells obtained from patients and should prove useful in evaluating the potential efficacy of therapeutic strategies directed toward T-ALL.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0006-4971
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
97
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3218-25
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Bone Marrow Cells, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Child, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Fetal Blood, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Gene Rearrangement, beta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Mice, Inbred NOD, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Mice, SCID, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Neoplasm Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Spleen, pubmed-meshheading:11342452-Transplantation Conditioning
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Preconditioning with fetal cord blood facilitates engraftment of primary childhood T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in immunodeficient mice.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't