T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia(T-ALL) is an aggressive leukemia.However the poor prognosis and low morbidity restrict further analysis of the disease.Therefore there is an increasing demand to develop animal mode...T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia(T-ALL) is an aggressive leukemia.However the poor prognosis and low morbidity restrict further analysis of the disease.Therefore there is an increasing demand to develop animal models for identifying novel therapeutic approaches.In this study,we inoculated the anti-mouse CD122 monoclonal antibody conditioned NOD/SCID mice with the leukemia cells from 9 T-ALL patients and 1 cell line via the tail vein.Four of the 9 patients and the cell line were successfully engrafted.Flow cytometry detected high percentage of human CD45 + cells in recipient mice.Immunohistochemistry showed infiltration of human CD45 + cells in different organs.Serial transplantation was also achieved.In vivo drug treatment showed that dexamethasone could extend survival,which was consistent with clinical observation.These results demonstrated that we successfully established 5 xenotransplantation models of T-ALL in anti-mCD122 mAb conditioned NOD/SCID mice,which recapitulated the characteristics of original disease.展开更多
The immunophenotype, rearrangements of T cell receptor(TCR) γ andδchain genes as well as the immunoglobulinheavy chain (IgH)gene were studied in 37 cases ofmorphologically defined acute lymphoblastic leukemi...The immunophenotype, rearrangements of T cell receptor(TCR) γ andδchain genes as well as the immunoglobulinheavy chain (IgH)gene were studied in 37 cases ofmorphologically defined acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).According to the expression of differentiation antigens, 8 caseswere classified as T-ALL, 26 B lineage ALL, 2 acute un-differentiated leukemia (AUL) and myeloid phenotype. An or-der of TCR gene rearrangements was observed in T-ALL,with the rearrangement of δgene preceding that of γgene.Both genes were also found frequently rearranged and / or de-leted in high proportions of the ALL of B cell lineage. Howev-er, the patterns of gene rearrangements were somewhat differ-ent between the T and B lineage ALLs. In contrast, the lgHgene rearrangements were observed only in the B lineage ALL.The immunogenotype analysis of ALL proved to be a usefulmarker of the clonality and provided us with important informa-tion on early human lymphoid differentiation. We concludethat the determination of T展开更多
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81025011 and No.81090414)
文摘T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia(T-ALL) is an aggressive leukemia.However the poor prognosis and low morbidity restrict further analysis of the disease.Therefore there is an increasing demand to develop animal models for identifying novel therapeutic approaches.In this study,we inoculated the anti-mouse CD122 monoclonal antibody conditioned NOD/SCID mice with the leukemia cells from 9 T-ALL patients and 1 cell line via the tail vein.Four of the 9 patients and the cell line were successfully engrafted.Flow cytometry detected high percentage of human CD45 + cells in recipient mice.Immunohistochemistry showed infiltration of human CD45 + cells in different organs.Serial transplantation was also achieved.In vivo drug treatment showed that dexamethasone could extend survival,which was consistent with clinical observation.These results demonstrated that we successfully established 5 xenotransplantation models of T-ALL in anti-mCD122 mAb conditioned NOD/SCID mice,which recapitulated the characteristics of original disease.
基金This work was supported by grants from the Shanghai Foundation for Natural Sciences,the Ministry of Health,.for Young Researchers and the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China
文摘The immunophenotype, rearrangements of T cell receptor(TCR) γ andδchain genes as well as the immunoglobulinheavy chain (IgH)gene were studied in 37 cases ofmorphologically defined acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).According to the expression of differentiation antigens, 8 caseswere classified as T-ALL, 26 B lineage ALL, 2 acute un-differentiated leukemia (AUL) and myeloid phenotype. An or-der of TCR gene rearrangements was observed in T-ALL,with the rearrangement of δgene preceding that of γgene.Both genes were also found frequently rearranged and / or de-leted in high proportions of the ALL of B cell lineage. Howev-er, the patterns of gene rearrangements were somewhat differ-ent between the T and B lineage ALLs. In contrast, the lgHgene rearrangements were observed only in the B lineage ALL.The immunogenotype analysis of ALL proved to be a usefulmarker of the clonality and provided us with important informa-tion on early human lymphoid differentiation. We concludethat the determination of T
