RESUMEN
Our laboratory isolated three defensin molecules from the circulating neutrophils of healthydonors.The three molecule mixture was conjugated with BSA and immunized New Zealand rab-bit.ELISA showed that the rabbit antisera was of a very high titters,which were specific for hu-man defensins.Immunoperoxidase staining with this rabbit antisera indicated that normal humanneutrophils,acute myeloid leukemia cell lines KG1 and HL-60 were highly positive.In con-trast,normal mononuclear leukocytes,erythrocytes,erythroleukemia cell line K562 were all neg-ative,even rabbit and guinea pig neutrophils had no response to this rabbit anti-human de-fensins antisera.Our preliminary experiments suggested that the rabbit antisera was highly spe-cific for human defensins.Probably,defensin is a differentiation antigen of granunocyte lineage,and antibody against human defensins would be a candidate immunological reagent specific for a-cute myeloid leukemia.Further work for this should be done.