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Query: UNIPROT:Q06643 (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma)
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The feasibility of monitoring cisplatin chemotherapy by measuring platinum (Pt) concentrations in blood mononuclear cells was tested in six patients (four with squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck, one with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and one with lung carcinoma). Blood samples (20 to 40 mL) were collected at intervals from 6 min to 21 days after an iv infusion of cisplatin (80 or 100 mg per m2). Blood mononuclear cells were harvested on a Ficoll-Hypaque gradient, washed repeatedly, counted, and homogenized by sonication in 0.5 mL of saline solution. Pt was analyzed in duplicate 40 microL samples of plasma (N = 26) or cell homogenates (N = 23) by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrophotometry with Zeeman background correction. Immediately after the cisplatin infusion, plasma Pt concentrations averaged 2.6 (SD +/- 0.2) mg per L and mononuclear cell Pt concentrations averaged 2.5 +/- 0.5 ng per 10(6) cells. At 24 to 26 hr post-infusion, plasma Pt concentrations averaged 1.6 +/- 0.2 mg per L and mononuclear cell Pt concentrations averaged 2.3 +/- 0.6 ng per 10(6) cells. Plasma Pt disappearance followed two-compartment kinetics in all patients; the plasma Pt disappearance half-time (T1/2, mean +/- SD) was 148 +/- 41 hours. The Pt concentrations in blood mononuclear cells diminished gradually during the period of observation; the T1/2 could not be reliably determined, but was estimated to be longer than two weeks. This study shows that Pt can be measured in mononuclear cells of patients after cisplatin treatment and that Pt disappears more slowly from blood mononuclear cells than from plasma of these patients.
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PMID:Platinum in blood mononuclear cells from patients after cisplatin therapy. 207 87

A major obstacle in purifying either autologous or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cells from granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) mobilized circulating progenitor cells (CPC) is represented by the huge cellularity present in each apheretic product. To obtain a significant debulking of unwanted cells from the leukapheresis, we developed a modified protocol of immune rosetting whereby human ABO-Rh- compatible red blood cells (RBCs) are treated with chromium chloride and then coated with murine monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) against leukocyte antigens. When experiments were performed with leukaphereses obtained from normal donors or from T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) patients, RBCs were coated with murine MoAbs against human mature myeloid cells (CD11b) and T cells (CD6); whereas, in the case of patients with B-precursor ALL, B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (B-NHL), or multiple myeloma (MM), RBCs were coated with anti-CD11b only. After incubation with CPC, rosetting cells (myeloid precursor cells, granulocytes, monocytes, and T cells) were removed by Ficoll-Hypaque density gradient centrifugation with a blood cell processor apparatus, COBE (Lakewood, CO) 2991. After this step, a significant reduction of the initial cellularity was consistently obtained (range, 72% to 97%), whereas the median absolute recovery of the CD34+ cells was above 85% (range, 64 to 100), with a 10-fold relative enrichment ranging from 3% to 41%. In a second step, CPC can be further purged of contaminating T or B cells by incubation with lymphoid-specific magnetic microbeads (anti-CD2 and -CD7 to remove T cells; anti-CD19 to remove B cells) and elution through a type-D depletion column (composed of ferromagnetic fiber) inserted within a SuperMACS separator device (Miltenyi Biotech, Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany). By this approach, a highly effective (three to four logs) T-cell depletion was achieved in all experiments performed with normal donors or T-ALL patients (median loss of CD3+ cells: 99.8% [range 99.2 to 100]) and an equally efficient B-cell depletion was obtained from B-precursor ALL, B-NHL, or MM patients. At the end of the procedure the T- or B-cell depleted fraction retained a high proportion of the initial hematopoietic CD34+ stem cells, with a median recovery above 70% (range 48% to 100%) and an unmodified clonogenic potential. In five patients (two follicular NHL and three ALL) the purified fraction of stem cells was found disease free at the molecular level as assessed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis of the t(14;18) chromosome translocation or clono-specific DNA sequences of IgH or T-cell receptor gamma and delta chain genes. Purified autologous and allogeneic CPCs were transplanted in three and six patients, respectively, who showed a prompt and sustained hematologic engraftment. In conclusion, this method represents a simple and reproducible two-step procedure to obtain a highly efficient purging of T or B cells from G-CSF expanded and mobilized CPCs. This approach might lead to the eradication of the neoplastic clone in the autologous stem cell inoculum as well as for T-cell depletion during allogeneic transplantation.
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PMID:Innovative two-step negative selection of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor-mobilized circulating progenitor cells: adequacy for autologous and allogeneic transplantation. 949 Jul 8