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  • Title: Endogenous erythroid colony formation in myeloproliferative diseases does not depend on T cells.
    Author: Robak T, Hast R, Goldman JM.
    Journal: Exp Hematol; 1986 Mar; 14(3):197-201. PubMed ID: 3485053.
    Abstract:
    We investigated the influence of T-cell depletion on BFU-E and CFU-GM colony growth in vitro from normal individuals and patients with chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL), idiopathic myelofibrosis (MF), and polycythemia vera (PV). Preincubation of mononuclear cells with the complement-fixing monoclonal antibody OKT11A, which is cytotoxic to T-lymphocytes, significantly reduced the number of erythropoietin (epo)-dependent BFU-E colonies cultured from normal bone marrow and normal peripheral blood, as well as from the blood of patients with CGL, PV, and MF. In contrast, the numbers of epo-independent ("endogenous") BFU-E colonies cultured from the blood of PV and MF patients were the same before and after T-cell depletion. The blood and marrow of CGL patients and normal individuals produced no epo-independent BFU-E proliferation. The growth of day-7 and day-14 CFU-GM was not significantly influenced by T-cell depletion in the majority of experiments. We conclude that T cells promote the growth of epo-dependent BFU-E colonies in vitro, but they do not influence the growth of "endogenous" BFU-E colonies from patients with myeloproliferative disorders.
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