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8220120

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-12-7
pubmed:abstractText
Nine patients with prolonged (> 2 years) chronic phase chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) were investigated for the presence of T-cell involvement in the leukemic clone. Pure populations of peripheral blood T-cell populations were obtained by culturing separated mononuclear cells in the presence of pokeweed mitogen and IL2, until cultures showed > 99% pure T-cells. Purified T-cells and bone marrow and peripheral blood hematopoietic precursors were analysed for the presence of bcr-abl mRNA transcripts following RNA extraction and message amplification using polymerase chain reaction. In none of the 9 patients was bcr-abl mRNA found in T-lymphocytes while in all cases such transcripts were found in bone marrow and peripheral blood hematopoietic cells. Failure to detect T-cell involvement in patients with prolonged chronic phase CML using techniques designed to enhance even low level involvement of these cell populations supports the view that acquisition of the Ph chromosome abnormality does not occur in the totipotent stem cells but in more committed precursor cell/s with multilineage capacity but which only rarely retain the capacity for T-cell differentiation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1042-8194
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
10
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
217-21
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Lack of involvement of T-lymphocytes in the leukaemic population during prolonged chronic phase of Philadelphia chromosome positive chronic myeloid leukaemia.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't