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Objective To investigate the expression of macrophages in the bone marrow of chronic lympho-cytic leukemia (CLL) patients and its clinical significance in the pathogenesis of CLL .Methods Fifty-eight patients with newly diagnosed CLL were selected ,including 24 cases of Binet A ,19 cases of Binet B ,15 cases of Binet C ,and 20 patients with iron deficiency anemia were selected as control group .Immunohistochemical staining was used to detect the expression of CD68+ (M1+M2 type) and CD163 (M2 type) in CLL patients . The expression differences in bone marrow tissues of CLL patients at different stages were compared . Results The numbers of CD68+ and CD163+ cells in CLL group were significantly higher than those in con-trol group (P<0 .05) ,while those in Binet C stage patients were higher than in Binet B stage patients (P<0 .05) and those in Binet B stage patients were higher than in Binet A stage patients (P<0 .05) .The progres-sion of CLL was positively correlated with the infiltration density of CD 163+ cells (P<0 .05) .Conclusion Macrophages have a high density of infiltration in the bone marrow of CLL patients ,and the infiltration densi-ty varies in different periods of CLL .With the progresses of the disease ,macrophages infiltrated into bone marrow gradually polarize to M 2 type ,w hich is relevant with the course of CLL progress .
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Objective To investigate the changes of IL‐1β,IL‐2 ,IL‐4 ,IL‐6 ,IL‐10 and INF‐γexpressions in bone marrow of chro‐nic myeloid leukemia(CML)patients .Methods The IL‐1β,IL‐2 ,IL‐4 ,IL‐6 ,IL‐10 and INF‐γexpression levels were detected by u‐sing flow cytometry in 30 cases of CML chronic phase(CML‐CP) ,21 cases of CML accelerated phase(CML‐AP) ,15 cases of CML blastic phase(CML‐BP) ,42 cases of CML remission after treatment and 7 cases of non‐remission .Then the detection results were compared with those in the control group .Results The expression levels of INF‐γ and IL‐2 in each CML groups were lower than those in the control group(PCML‐AP> CML‐CP ,the difference among groups had statistical significance (P0 .05) .Conclusion The changes of serum cytokines in bone marrow microenvironment of CMLpatients have certain significance to the occurrence ,development and prognosis of CML ;the de‐tection of IL‐1β,IL‐2 ,IL‐4 ,IL‐6 ,IL‐10 and INF‐γlevels in bone marrow is hopeful to provide new ideas and theoretical basis for im‐mune therapy and prognosis judgment of CML patients .
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Objective To explore the changes of inflammatory factors in patients with different stage of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) ,and to study the changes of immune microenvironment in patients with RA .Methods The serum levels of tumor necrosis factor(TNF) ,interleukin‐10(IL‐10) ,interleukin‐6(IL‐6) ,interleukin‐1β(IL‐1β) and interleukin‐4(IL‐4) in patients with RA on ac‐tive stage(36 cases) ,patients with RA on remitting stage and healthy individuals (30 cases)were detected by using cytometric bead array .Results The serum levels of IL‐6 ,IL‐1βand TNF in active stage RA group were higher than those in control group and re‐mitting stage RA group ,while serum levels of IL‐4 and IL‐10 were lower than those in control group and remitting stage RA group , and the differences were statistically significant (P0 .05) .As the disease develops ,except for IL‐6 which tended to be stable , the serum levels of IL‐4 and IL‐10 had a rising trend ,while serum levels of IL‐1βand TNF had a downward trend with the progres‐sion of RA .Conclusion There is an imbalance between Th1 and Th2 cytokines in patients with RA on active stage ,in which Th1 cytokines are dominantly expressed .Periodic detection of inflammatory factors according to the course of RA could provide a relia‐ble basis for the assessment of disease activity .
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BACKGROUND: Uncontrolled-rate freezing in -80 ℃ refrigerator is convenient, while controlled-rate freezing in -196 ℃ liquid nitrogen is reliable and long-term, the combination of the two can simplify the process and has been successfully used in clinics. OBJECTIVE: To explore the influences of different cryoprotectants by ladder-style freezing from -80 ℃ low temperature refrigerator to liquid nitrogen on the cryopreservation of hemopoietic stem cells. METHODS: The experiments were divided into four groups: 10% dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) group, 5% DMSO combined with 3% hydroxyethyl starch group, 5% DMSO combined with 0.25 mol/L trehalose group, 5% DMSO combined with 3% hydroxyethyl starch and 0.25 mol/L trehalose group. Peripheral hemopoietic stem cells were cryopreserved by ladder-style freezing from -80 ℃ low temperature refrigerator to liquid nitrogen. The ultrastructural changes were examined by transmission electron microscopy, the expressions of Annexin-V, PI and Caspase-3 were detected by flow cytometry. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: There was no significant difference in survival rate, apoptotic rate and necrotic rates of the cryopreserved cells in the four groups (P > 0.05). The ultrastructural changes had no significant difference under the transmission electron microscopy. The viability was more than 90% in frozen-thawed mononuclear cell colonies, and the apoptosis was roughly 50% in the frozen-thawed CD45+ cell population, which contained many mature cells. Of hemopoietic stem cells, early stage cells have greater resistance to damage of cryopreservation than late stage cells. It is concluded that the addition of hydroxyethyl starch or trehalose into DMSO exhibits no synergistic protective effect on the cryopreservation of hemopoietic stem cells.
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This study was designed to investigate the polymorphism of intron 22 (CA)n repeat within FVIII gene in Dai, Yi and Han populations of Yunnan province. PCR, DNA sequencing technique and PAGE were used in this study. The results showed that three different alleles corresponding to 24, 25 and 26 dinucleotides were found at this locus and the allele frequency ranged from 1.20% to 57.7% in Dai and from 16.43% to 63.00% in Yi populations. In Han population, five different alleles with 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 (CA)s were found, the allele frequency ranged from 8.97% to 32.00%. Heterozygotes of intron 22 (CA) repeat within FVIII gene were not found in the three populations. In conclusion, it was obvious that the locus cannot be acted as DNA genetic marker of FVIII gene in the three populations in Yunnan.