| Autor: |
Helfand SC; School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706, USA., Modiano JF, Moore PF, Soergel SA, MacWilliams PS, Dubielzig RD, Hank JA, Gelfand EW, Sondel PM |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Blood [Blood] 1995 Jul 15; Vol. 86 (2), pp. 636-45. |
| Abstrakt: |
We identified a dog with large granular lymphocytic leukemia and cutaneous lymphoma that exhibited constitutive expression of interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptors by the leukemic peripheral blood lymphocytes. The leukemic cells phenotypically resembled natural killer (NK) cells, and their surface IL-2 receptors were functional, as determined by the capacity to bind human recombinant IL-2 with high-affinity resulting in the transduction of proliferation signals and in the development of lymphokine-activated killer cell activity. These cells produced IL-2 spontaneously, and they may have maintained their proliferative state through an IL-2-dependent autocrine growth pathway. Our results indicate that neoplastic lymphocytes of syndromes that involve circulating leukemic cells with dermotropism can originate from NK-like cells. Additionally, the data also suggest that proliferative conditions such as these may be the result of the aberrant production of IL-2. Further, this case illustrates the potential for the use of hematopoietic malignancies in the dog as a suitable animal model for immune targeting of IL-2 receptors as a novel treatment approach for similar malignancies of human beings. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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