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In this paper is reported a case of acute biphenotypic leukemia who was treated by chemotherapy and pursued its effect by two color flow cytometry. A 33-year-old male patient was admitted due to fever and general fatigue and diagnosed as acute leukemia by hematological findings. Surface markers were investigated to find positive reaction of Leu 12 (CD19), J 5 (CD10), My 7 (CD13) and My 9 (CD33), in which Leu 12 and My 9 were simultaneously expressed on the same blast cells by two color flow cytometry. He was treated with daunorubicin, enocitabine, mercaptopurine, vincristine, and prednisolone to obtain partial remission. Then, he was administered L-asparaginase, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisolone to reach complete remission. The effect of chemotherapy was investigated by not only bone marrow puncture, but also by two color flow cytometry. From the findings in this case, the two flow cytometry was proved to be a useful tool for not only diagnosis of acute mixed leukemia, aut also the judgement of the effect of treatment.
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PMID:[Acute biphenotypic leukemia followed by two color flow cytometry]. 259 47

In a four year span, between 1983 and 1987, 215 bone marrow and cell culture samples from 125 myeloma patients were immunotyped and coexpression of myelomonocytic and plasma cell antigens occurred in 16 (13%). We employed both immunohistochemical and flow cytometry methods including coplots and double labelling. Three types of myeloma cases were found: (1) those with isolated myeloid antigen coexpression, usually Leu M1 or esterase (BE, CE) positive (11 cases); (2) those with multiple myeloid antigens (Leu M1, M3, M5, MY7, BE, CE) (four cases); and (3) one case beginning as 1 and ending as 2. Isolated myeloid antigen expression was generally associated with typical features of myeloma with survival close to the anticipated median (33 months), while multiple myeloid antigen expression was associated with more aggressive disease and shorter survival duration (median survival 16 months). The latter subgroup also had other poor prognostic factors including high labelling index and common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen (CALLA) positivity. Other features found overall were frequent abnormal karyotypes (seven of 12 abnormal) and coexpressed IgA (eight of 16); all IgA+ cases also coexpressed Leu M1. We conclude that there is an unusual and unexpected predilection for coexpression of myelomonocytic antigens in myeloma cells. The reasons are not immediately obvious. Whether the coexpression indicates that myeloma cells truly have latent multilineage potential or just aberrantly coexpress other hematopoietic antigens as a manifestation of malignancy remains to be explained. However, a cell line established from the bone marrow of one patient is a valuable scientific tool allowing detailed analysis of these questions.
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PMID:Myelomonocytic antigen positive multiple myeloma. 264 87

The diagnostic value of immunohistochemistry using monoclonal antibodies was assessed in 100 liver biopsy specimens. The majority of these cases were hepatic localizations of lymphoid malignancies. Ten normal and reactive inflammatory liver biopsies were used as controls. Some monoclonal antibodies directed against leukocyte antigens revealed unexpected reactivities with normal liver structures: biliary tract (anti-CD10, anti-B MB2) and hepatocytes (anti-B LN1). In 12/17 cases of hepatic involvement by large cell malignancy, immunohistochemistry allowed the diagnosis of non Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL); the remaining 5 cases were metastatic undifferentiated carcinoma. It was difficult to differentiate small cell liver NHL from reactive inflammatory infiltration. New anti-B (MB1, MB2, 4KB5, LN1 and LN2) and anti-T (MT1 and UCHL1) monoclonal antibodies suitable for use on paraffin sections were of value to phenotype NHL when only fixed material was available. But, information was too limited to distinguish malignant from reactive infiltrates. Immunohistochemistry on frozen sections was often necessary to diagnose inflammatory infiltrates and to phenotype NHL. Most NHL were of B cell origin (11/13 cases) and showed monotypic surface immunoglobulins as well as B cell-associated antigens (CD22+). The expression of the T CD5 antigen by B-cell NHL may have some diagnostic value. When monotypic surface immunoglobulins could not be demonstrated (due to background staining) the expression of this antigen by B lymphocytes was considered to be highly indicative of their neoplastic nature. Hairy cell leukemia exhibited a pathognomonic phenotype on frozen sections (CD11c+, CD22+, CD25+). T NHL were rare (2 cases) and difficult to diagnose due to the lack of clonal markers. The diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease in liver (15/20 cases) was facilitated by using paraffin sections of both monoclonal antibodies anti-CD15 (Leu M1) and anti-CD30 (Ber-H2) which detect fixation-resistant antigens expressed by Sternberg cells.
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PMID:[Immunochemical diagnosis of hepatic localizations in malignant lymphoid hematologic diseases. Study of 80 cases]. 266 Dec 93

An endopeptidase specific to the Plasmodium falciparum erythrocytic schizont stage and to free merozoites was detected using the fluorogenic GlcA-Val-Leu-Gly-Lys(or Arg)-AEC substrate. The enzyme was purified by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC); its optimal activity was around pH 7.5 and its isoelectric point was 4.4. The molecular weight of the enzyme was about 68,000, as demonstrated by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) under reducing conditions. The endopeptidase was strongly inhibited by thiol proteinase inhibitors, leupeptin, and antipain. The possible involvement of this neutral endopeptidase in the reinvasion process is discussed.
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PMID:Purification and identification of a neutral endopeptidase in Plasmodium falciparum schizonts and merozoites. 266 80

The circulating lymphoid cells of eight consecutive untreated infants with severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID) with B cells were analyzed for surface marker expression and function. The B cells of these children expressed sIg, HLA-DR, CD19 (B4), CD20 (B1), CD21 (B2), Leu-8, and lacked expression of CD10 (CALLA), as do normal peripheral blood B lymphocytes. SCID B cells also expressed antigens that are normally absent or present on only a minor subset of circulating adult B lymphocytes, including CD1c (M241), CD38 (OKT10), CD23 (PL13), with or without concomitant CD5 (Leu-1) expression. The B cells of these children were capable of proliferating in vitro when stimulated with Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I. However, in the presence of pokeweed mitogen, S. aureus Cowan I, and normal T cells, the sIg+ cells of these children produced only IgM. Studies performed on normal B cells obtained from cord blood, young children, and adults reveal that whereas cord blood B cells are predominantly CD1c, CD38, and CD23 positive, B-cell expression of these antigens decreases with age. Cord blood B cells, similar to SCID B cells, produce only IgM when stimulated in vitro with pokeweed mitogen and S. aureus Cowan I. Based on these observations, we hypothesize that SCID B cells represent a population of B cells present during normal B-cell ontogeny which becomes a minor subset when an individual develops full immunologic competence.
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PMID:Characterization of B cells in severe combined immunodeficiency disease. 267 Aug 51

The cellular localization of the rat brain neutral endopeptidase (NEP, EC 3.4.24.11) was investigated by quantitative autoradiography of the enzyme inhibitor [3H]N-[(2RS)-3-hydroxyaminocarbonyl-2-benzyl-1-oxopropyl]glycine ([3H]HACBO-Gly) after lesions of the striatum, nigrostriatal and corticostriatal pathways. The effect of these lesions on NEP levels was compared with that on delta and mu opioid receptors, selectively labeled with [3H]Tyr-D-Thr-Gly-Leu-Thr ([3H]DTLET) and [3H]Tyr-D-Ala-Gly-MePhe-Glycinol ([3H]DAGO), respectively. Twenty-one days after injection of kainate in the caudate putamen (CP), the NEP level was locally decreased (52%) but the time course of this decrease was different from that of mu and delta opioid receptors: [3H]DAGO binding was diminished by 40% from day 2 whereas that of [3H]DTLET was reduced by 51% from day 7. Kainic acid injection in the CP induced in the globus pallidus (GP) and substantia nigra (SN) a distant reduction of the 3 opioid markers. Likewise after injection of colchicine in the CP, [3H]HACBO-Gly binding was decreased in the GP (60%) and SN (58%), [3H]DTLET binding was reduced by 54 and 55% in the GP and SN, respectively and [3H]DAGO labeling was diminished by 49% in the GP, and 58% in the SN. Finally, lesion of the nigrostriatal dopamine pathway by 6-hydroxydopamine did not induce any change of NEP level in the CP and GP whereas delta and mu opioid receptor levels were diminished respectively by 25 and 29% in the CP, and 45 and 39% in the GP, a new finding of the present study. Taken together these data suggest that NEP is in part associated with striatal intrinsic neurons. In the GP and SN, a large part of NEP seems to be presynaptically associated with nerve terminals endowed with mu and delta opioid receptors, which originate from efferent striatal neurons. In contrast to opioid receptors in the CP, the NEP appears not to be associated with dopaminergic nerve terminals originating from the SN. Cortical ablation did not affect any of the opioid markers.
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PMID:Neutral endopeptidase-24.11, mu and delta opioid receptors after selective brain lesions: an autoradiographic study. 282 89

Somatostatin (SRIF) is a putative peptide neurotransmitter that may interact with brain capillaries following neurosecretion of the peptide. The present studies investigate the binding and metabolism of SRIF analogues in isolated bovine brain microvessels. 125I-[Tyr1]SRIF was rapidly degraded by capillary aminopeptidase with a half-time of approximately 3 min at 23 degrees C. The microvessel aminopeptidase had a low affinity and high capacity for the peptide, Km = 76 microM and Vmax = 74 nmol min-1 mgp-1. 125I-[Tyr11]SRIF was converted to free iodotyrosine at a much slower rate, presumably by a lower-activity endopeptidase. 125I-[Try11]SRIF was rapidly bound by microvessels, whereas another basic peptide, [Tyr8]bradykinin, or an acidic peptide, CCK8, or a neutral peptide, leucine enkephalin, were bound to a considerably less extent. The binding of 125I-[Tyr11]SRIF to the capillaries was nonsaturable up to a concentration of 1 microgram/ml of unlabeled peptide, and the binding reaction was extremely rapid, reaching equilibrium within 5 s at either 0 degrees C or 37 degrees C. Approximately 20% of the SRIF bound by the microvessels was resistant to acid wash and presumably represented internalized peptide. In addition, the 125I-[Tyr11]SRIF bound rapidly to the endothelial cytoskeleton remaining after a 1% Triton X-100 extraction of the microvessels. The peptide-cytoskeletal binding reaction was nonsaturable up to 1 microgram/ml of unlabeled [Tyr11]SRIF, but it was inhibited by 0.5% polylysine or 0.8 M KCl and was stimulated by 1 mM dithiothreiotol. These studies suggest that brain microvessels rapidly sequester and degrade SRIF analogues and that this may represent one mechanism for rapid inactivation of the neuropeptides subsequent to neurosecretion.
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PMID:Rapid sequestration and degradation of somatostatin analogues by isolated brain microvessels. 285 72

An endopeptidase releasing the common N-terminal hexapeptide, (Leu)-enkephalin-Arg6, from dynorphins A and B, and alpha-neoendorphin was purified from human cerebrospinal fluid. Purification involved ion-exchange chromatography (DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B), hydrophobic interaction chromatography (phenyl-Sepharose CL-4B) and molecular sieving (Sephadex G-100). The enzyme showed molecular heterogeneity. A major fraction had an apparent molecular weight of about 40,000. It had an optimum activity in the pH range of 6-8. The conversion of dynorphin A was not affected by EDTA or iodoacetate but strongly reduced in the presence of phenylmethyl-sulphonyl fluoride, suggesting the enzyme is a serine protease.
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PMID:Endopeptidase in human cerebrospinal fluid which cleaves proenkephalin B opioid peptides at consecutive basic amino acids. 286 27

The property of solutions of Triton X-114 to separate into detergent-rich and detergent-poor phases at 30 degrees C has been exploited to investigate the identities of the aminopeptidases in synaptic membrane preparations from pig striatum. When titrated with an antiserum to aminopeptidase N (EC 3.4.11.2), synaptic membranes solubilized with Triton X-100 revealed that this enzyme apparently comprises no more than 5% of the activity releasing tyrosine from [Leu]enkephalin. When assayed in the presence of puromycin, this proportion increased to 20%. Three integral membrane proteins were fractionated by phase separation in Triton X-114. Aminopeptidase activity, endopeptidase-24.11 and peptidyl dipeptidase A partitioned predominantly into the detergent-rich phase when kidney microvillar membranes were so treated. However, only 5.5% of synaptic membrane aminopeptidase activity partitioned into this phase, although the other peptidases behaved predictably. About half of the aminopeptidase activity in the detergent-rich phase could now be titrated with the antiserum, showing that aminopeptidase N is an integral membrane protein of this preparation. Three aminopeptidase inhibitors were investigated for their ability to discriminate between the different activities revealed by these experiments. Although amastatin was the most potent (IC50 = 5 X 10(-7) M) it failed to discriminate between pure kidney aminopeptidase N, the total activity of solubilized synaptic membranes and that in the Triton X-114-rich phase. Bestatin was slightly more potent for total activity (IC50 = 6.3 X 10(-6) M) than for the other two forms (IC50 = 1.6 X 10(-5) M). Puromycin was a weak inhibitor, but was more selective. The activity of solubilized membranes was more sensitive (IC50 = 1.6 X 10(-5) M) than that of the pure enzyme or the Triton X-114-rich phase (IC50 = 4 X 10(-4) M). We suggest that the puromycin-sensitive aminopeptidase activity that predominates in crude synaptic membrane preparations may be a cytosolic contaminant or peripheral membrane protein rather than an integral membrane component. Aminopeptidase N may contribute to the extracellular metabolism of enkephalin and other susceptible neuropeptides in the brain.
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PMID:The metabolism of neuropeptides. Phase separation of synaptic membrane preparations with Triton X-114 reveals the presence of aminopeptidase N. 286 52

Immunoperoxidase localization of monoclonal antibodies in sections of melanoma has been used to identify histological features which may be of prognostic importance in melanoma, in particular whether certain structures on melanoma cells may determine the degree and nature of lymphoid infiltrates and whether these may be related to prognosis. Monoclonal antibodies to lymphocyte subpopulations were used to identify and quantitate lymphoid infiltrates in 15 primary melanomas and 8 cutaneous metastases. These were correlated with histological features identified in routine sections. There was a wide variation in the numbers of mononuclear cells associated with both primary and metastatic melanoma. T cells and to a lesser extent macrophages accounted for the majority of the cells, B cells and natural killer (NK) cells for only 2% of the infiltrates. The Leu 3a (helper) T cell subpopulation predominated in primary tumours, OKT8 positive (suppressor/cytotoxic) cells in metastases. Infiltrates in which OKT8 cells predominated were associated with ulceration, a high mitotic rate and thick primary tumours. The converse applied to Leu 3a infiltrates. Infiltrates with a high proportion of Leu 3a positive cells tended to be associated with Thy-1 positive, DR antigen negative tumours. Thy-1 antigens were predominantly expressed on primary tumours and rarely on metastases whereas the converse applied to expression of the acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen (CALLA) on melanoma cells. These findings suggest that certain melanoma antigens may be related to the nature of the lymphoid infiltrate associated with melanoma and possibly with the behaviour of the tumour in the host. They further suggest that identification of cell surface structures and lymphoid infiltrates by these techniques may be a valuable extension of routine histopathological assessment of prognosis in melanoma.
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PMID:Current research on immunopathology of melanoma: analysis of lymphocyte populations in relation to antigen expression and histological features of melanoma. 286 82


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