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S Benedek

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PubMed1975

Autotransfusion of 3H-cytidine-labelled blood lymphocytes in patients with Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin patients. II. Exchangeable lymphocyte pools.

The dilution in the circulating blood of lymphocytes lablled in vitro with 3H-cytidine was examined after autotransfusion in 9 patients with Hodgkin's disease (HD) stage II A-IV B, 5 of whom were untreated; in 2 untreated patients with carcinoma, and in 1 treated patient with scleroderma. The blood transit time of exchangeable lymphocytes was 37 +/- 18 min in the patients with HD and 26 +/- 6 min in the other patients. The proportion of exchangeable (recirculating) small blood lymphocytes was 39-84% in HD and 81-91% in the carcinoma patients. The relation between the size of the circulating pool of small blood lymphocytes and the total exchangeable (recirculating) lymphocyte pool was 1:20 to 1:30 in HD and 1:29 to 1:34 in the other patients. The absolute size of the recirculating pool of lymphocytes was 46-90 times 10(9) cells in HD and 100-150 times 10(9) cells in the carcinoma patients.

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Cell surface fibronectin on peripheral blood lymphocytes in normal individuals and in patients with acute and chronic lymphocytic leukemia and non Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Fibronectin was detected by immunofluorescence on the surface of one fraction of separated normal peripheral blood lymphocytes using FITC-conjugated anti-human fibronectin antibodies. Approximately one fifth of isolated B cells and 7% of O cells contained surface bound fibronectin but T cells failed to stain. There were no detectable free receptors for fibronectin on the surfaces of the lymphocytes in the different subsets isolated from healthy controls as studied using FITC-labelled purified fibronectin. The per cent of B and O cells bearing surface bound fibronectin was markedly decreased in patients with acute and chronic lymphocytic leukemias and non Hodgkin's lymphoma, only 1-4% of B and 1-2% of O cells stained with FITC-labelled antifibronectin immunoglobulins. FITC-conjugated fibronectin was not bound to the different lymphoblasts isolated from patients with leukemia and lymphoma. Treatment of cells with trypsin and EDTA removed fibronectin bound to the cell surfaces. Fibronectin attached to the surfaces of lymphocytes may have an immunoregulatory function.

Adolescent↗
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Fibronectin in cryoimmunoglobulinaemias.

Isolated and washed cryoimmunoglobulins from 15 patients were studied for the presence of fibronectin by immunodiffusion tests. Two of the isolated cryoglobulins proved to the pure monoclonal immunoglobulins (IgGl kappa and IgGl lambda), nine contained both monoclonal IgM kappa and polyclonal IgG and four were composed of polyclonal IgG, IgM and IgA by immunoelectrophoresis. Double immunodiffusion analysis detected the presence of fibronectin in each of the separated cryoimmunoglobulins. In a solid phase radioimmunoassay, I125 labelled purified fibronectin proved to bind to isolated human monoclonal myeloma proteins of IgGl kappa and IgG3 lambda subclasses. Fibronectin seems to be present not only in mixed polyclonal but also in mixed monoclonal-polyclonal and in monocomponent cryoimmunoglobulins, and it may be bound to one of the immunoglobulin components of the cryoglobulins.

Complement System Proteins↗