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Natural killer cell-mediated inhibition of bone marrow colony formation (CFU-GM) in refractory anaemia (preleukaemia): evidence for patient-specific cell populations.
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British journal of haematology [Br J Haematol] 1988 Aug; Vol. 69 (4), pp. 457-62. - Publication Year :
- 1988
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Abstract
- The role of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PB-MNC) on the growth of bone marrow (BM) CFU-GM was investigated in refractory anaemia (RA) patients. Whereas normal donor PB-MNC were found to inhibit autologous day 7 CFU-GM, PB-MNC from RA patients exhibited little modulatory effect on autologous or allogeneic day 7 CFU-GM. In contrast, patient PB-MNC inhibited autologous CFU-GM at day 10 at a time where no significant inhibition was seen in the PB-MNC/RA CFU-GM combination. The identity of the inhibitory cells was investigated using anti-T8+ and anti-N901+ subsets purified by immune-rosette depletion with a panel of monoclonal antibodies. The activity of these subsets was tested on immature myeloid cells enriched for MY7+ cells, and it was found that cells highly enriched for NK cells were responsible for the inhibition. Further support for NK cells as the inhibitory cells was obtained in experiments where a positive correlation between the level of PB NK cytotoxicity against K562 cells and the degree of CFU-GM inhibition was demonstrated. Thus, these data suggest the presence of a specialized subset of NK cells with a capacity to inhibit autologous CFU-GM. Since RA is a potentially premalignant disease, in which a significant number of cases transform into AML, these findings also suggest a physiological role for NK cells in suppression of newly arisen clonogenic cells at least in early stages of the disease.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0007-1048
- Volume :
- 69
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- British journal of haematology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 3408683
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2141.1988.tb02398.x