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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-11-23
pubmed:abstractText
We have made a model of in vivo cell proliferation of leukemic cells from adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) patients using severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mice. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) or lymph node cells (LNC) depleted of B cells and monocytes were intraperitoneally injected into SCID mice treated with antimurine interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2+) beta chain monoclonal antibody (MoAb)(TM-beta 1), followed by daily injection of human recombinant IL-2 until 60 days after cell injection. SCID mice injected with ATL cells from 6 of 8 ATL patients were found to have the tumor or leukemia 5 to 7 weeks after the inoculation of cells. Serum levels of soluble form of human IL-2R alpha chain (Tac) were markedly elevated in such mice. The cells recovered from the mice injected with leukemic cells from four different ATL patients had the same cell surface phenotype as that of original leukemic cells which were CD4+Tac+. Furthermore, we detected the same integration site of human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) provirus and the same rearrangement pattern of human T-cell receptor (TCR) beta chain gene as those of ATL cells by Southern blot hybridization, indicating that the cells proliferating in SCID mice were derived from the original ATL cell clone. Histologic examination showed that the pattern of the infiltration of ATL cells into various organs in SCID mice was similar to that of an ATL patient. Such a model of in vivo cell proliferation of ATL cells will be useful for the study of the mechanism of neoplastic cell proliferation and for the development of a new and effective treatment of ATL.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0006-4971
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
82
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2501-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8400297-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:8400297-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:8400297-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8400297-Cell Division, pubmed-meshheading:8400297-DNA, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:8400297-Female, pubmed-meshheading:8400297-Gene Rearrangement, beta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor, pubmed-meshheading:8400297-Human T-lymphotropic virus 1, pubmed-meshheading:8400297-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:8400297-Leukemia, T-Cell, pubmed-meshheading:8400297-Leukemic Infiltration, pubmed-meshheading:8400297-Male, pubmed-meshheading:8400297-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:8400297-Mice, SCID, pubmed-meshheading:8400297-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:8400297-Neoplasm Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:8400297-Receptors, Interleukin-2, pubmed-meshheading:8400297-Transplantation, Heterologous
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
A model of in vivo cell proliferation of adult T-cell leukemia.
pubmed:affiliation
First Department of Internal Medicine and Laboratory of Anatomic Pathology, Kyoto University, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't