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Query: UMLS:C0023418 (leukemia)
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Fifteen cases of histologically proven hairy-cell leukaemia (HCL) were studied with immunofluorescence, rosette, and phagocytosis techniques. Unfixed hairy cells (HC) bound all kinds of labelled antiserum; but after fixation with formaldehyde a much more selective binding was observed. In two cases no surface-bound Ig was detected; four cases showed gamma and in nine cases two or three heavy chains were found, alpha and delta being the most frequent. Few cases were clearly positive for mu. The picture was invariably monoclonal with respect to light chains. Cytoplasmic Ig was present in only 3/15 cases; it was always IgM. HC did not form E-rosettes or react with a fluorescent anti-T cell antiserum. No EAIgMC-rosettes were formed. All cases showed Fc receptors, which were detected with EAIgG-rosettes (13/13) or with antigen-antibody complexes (6/6). The density of Fc receptors varied widely. Incubation with latex particles resulted in cell-associated particles in 16-63% of the HC; with Staphylococcus epidermidis, the percentage was 2-36. After enzyme treatment (lysostaphin), however, no ingested bacteria were found, which suggests that HC are essentially non-phagocytic. At least 13 cases were therefore classified as B-cell malignancies.
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PMID:Hairy-cell leukaemia: a B-lymphocytic disorder. 38 Jun 27

The hairy-cells (HC) of 10 patients with hairy-cell leukaemia were studied with several techniques to evaluate their phagocytic potential. Mononuclear cells from normal donors and from patients with acute monocytic leukaemia served as controls. Light microscopically HC seemed to have ingested bacteria or latex particles. Treatment of the cells with lysostaphin, an enzyme that kills extracellular Staphylococcus aureus, showed that almost all 'ingested' bacteria were extracellular. Lanthanum nitrate, added during the fixation procedure for electron microscopy, stained both the outer cell membrane and the membranes of the 'phagosomes' of the HC, also indicating that the 'ingested' particles were extracellular. HC showed no increased oxygen consumption on exposure to bacteria in the presence of serum. Furthermore, HC showed no lysozyme or peroxidase activity, whereas non-specific esterase activity was much weaker than in monocytes. These findings, which show that HC are essentially non-phagocytic, constitute strong evidence against a monocytic origin of the malignant cells of hairy-cell leukaemia.
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PMID:Phagocytic potential of hairy cells. 49 73