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Growth of Normal Versus Leukemic Bone Marrow Cells in Long Term Culture from Acute Lymphoblastic and Myeloblastic Leukemias

Overview
Journal Blut
Specialty Hematology
Date 1990 Nov 1
PMID 2271773
Authors
R Schiro
L H Coutinho
A Will
J Chang
N G Testa
T M Dexter
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Abstract

The ability of the in vitro long-term bone marrow culture (LTBMC) system to impair the survival of leukemic cells and to enhance the growth of normal progenitors has been studied. Bone marrow cells from 19 acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and 30 acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients at diagnosis were grown in LTBMC for 4-10 weeks. In half of the cases the leukemic population declined down to undetectable levels and was replaced by putative normal hemopoietic precursors, both in ALL and in AML. In the remaining cases, leukemic cells persisted throughout the culture time and few if any normal hemopoietic cells were detected. These data led us to extend to the lymphoid compartment the previous observation of decreasing leukemic myeloid blasts in LTBMC. The potential of such cultures as an in vitro purging system for autologous bone marrow transplantation in selected poor-prognosis lymphoid malignancies should be explored, as has been done for acute and chronic myeloid leukemias.

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