[Dendritic cells and acute myeloid leukemia].

Dendritic cells can be derived from leukemia cells and normal precursor cells in the patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Dendritic cells may capture leukemia antigen in bone marrow or lymph nodes, and present leukemia common antigen to stimulate proliferation of specific CD8(+) T cells, playing anti-leukemia effect. Dendritic cells for clinical and experimental use are transformed from leukemia cells and peripheral blood mononuclear cells and loaded in vitro with leukemia -specific or tumor common antigen, play a therapeutic role after reinfusion.

N-3 PUFAs have antiproliferative and apoptotic effects on human colorectal cancer stem-like cells in vitro.

The n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids have been shown to inhibit the induction and progression of many kinds of tumor and to increase the therapeutic effects of numerous chemotherapeutics, but their anticancer effect on cancer stem cells from colorectal cancer has not been described previously. In the present study, we cultivated spheres from the SW620 cell line in serum-free medium and evaluated the features of the spheres by immunofluorescence, cell cycle distribution, resistance to chemotherapeutics and soft agar clone formation, and the spheres were shown to be cancer stem-like cells through tumorigenicity in athymic nude mice. Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction analysis of pluripotency genes, such as Sox-2, Oct-4 and Bmi-1, showed that the spheres were generated by dedifferentiation of SW620 cells.

[Relationship between NQO1C(609T), RAD51(G135C), XRCC3(C241T) single nucleotide polymorphisms and acute lymphoblastic leukemia].

This study was purposed to investigate the relationship between NQO1C(609T), RAD51(G135C), XRCC3(C241T) single nucleotide polymorphisms and incidence of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). NQO1C(609T), RAD51(G135C), XRCC3(C241T) genotypes were detected by PCR-RFLP in 170 patients with de novo ALL and 458 normal persons as control. The results indicated that the genotype ratio of NQO1C(609T), RAD51(G135C) and XRCC3(C241T) in single genotype analysis showed no statistical difference between ALL patients and normal controls, which suggested that the single genotype affect onset of ALL without statistical significance.

[Clinical study on relationship between JAK2 V617F mutation and chronic myeloproliferative disorders].

Objective: To investigate JAK2V617F mutation and its clinical significance in patients with chronic myeloproliferative disorders (cMPD).

Methods: A retrospective study was performed on 523 cMPD patients diagnosed according to the current World Health Organization (WHO) criteria. Allele-specific PCR (ASP) was used to identify JAK2V617F mutation, the mutation status was analyzed by PCR-RFLP, and the results were confirmed by sequence analysis.

[Morphology and Immunophenotype Study of Bone Marrow Mononuclear Cells after Activated by Different Cytokines In Vitro].

Bone marrow cells in cultures were divided into four groups and cultured with various cytokines in vitro. These four groups are: control, IL-2 group, CD3-AK group, and CIK group. The morphological (cell volume, nucleus/plasm) changes of bone marrow cells in culture were observed.