Confocal backscattering spectroscopy for leukemic and normal blood cell discrimination

Red blood cells release factors with gro

Red blood cells release factors with growth and survival bioactivities for normal and leukemic T cells

✍ Antunes, Ricardo F; Brandão, Cláudia; Maia, Margarida; Arosa, Fernando A 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 Nature Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 529 KB

Human red blood cells are emerging as a cell type capable to regulate biological processes of neighboring cells. Hereby, we show that human red blood cell conditioned media contains bioactive factors that favor proliferation of normal activated T cells and leukemic Jurkat T cells, and therefore call