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Flow Cytometry to Estimate Leukemia Stem Cells in Primary Acute Myeloid Leukemia and in Patient-derived-xenografts, at Diagnosis and Follow Up
Published on: March 26, 2018
Blood outgrowth endothelial cells from chronic myeloid leukaemia patients are BCR/ABL1 negative
Jasmin Otten1, Alexander Schultze, Philippe Schafhausen
1Department of Internal Medicine II, Cancer Centre, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Abstract:
The existence of adult haemangioblasts with dual haematopoietic and endothelial developmental potential was confirmed after detection of Ph(+) vascular endothelial cells in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) patients. Blood outgrowth endothelial cells (OECs) from CML patients were found not to harbour the Philadelphia translocation and were thus not clonally related to BRC/ABL1(+) hematopoietic progenitors, but comprised a distinct subfraction of endothelial cells. Remarkably, the frequency of CML-derived OECs was 9-fold higher as compared to healthy donors (n = 19 and n = 300, respectively; P < 0.0001) and these cells showed increased proliferative potential, possibly reflecting the mobilisation of OEC progenitors by pro-angiogenic cytokines.
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