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Colony Forming Cell (CFC) Assay for Human Hematopoietic Cells
Published on: December 18, 2010
Production of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor by head and neck carcinomas
M Tsukuda1, T Nagahara, T Yago
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
Abstract:
Detectable levels of G-CSF by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) were found in sera of 4 out of 15 patients with head and neck carcinomas. Also cells prepared from the tumors of these 4 patients secreted G-CSF. The supernatants of cells derived from all 15 patients did not contain granulocyte-monocyte CSF, monocyte CSF, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, transforming growth factor-beta 1, epidermal growth factor, interleukin (IL)-1 beta and IL-6. These findings suggest that leukocytosis in patients with carcinomas might be due to the production of G-CSF by tumor cells.
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