Cytogenetic analysis of human acute and chronic myeloid leukemic cells cloned in agar culture

✍ Scribed by Dr. Malcolm A. S. Moore; Donald Metcalf

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 792 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7136
• DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910110117

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Karyotypic analysis was performed on agar cultures of blood or bone marrow from 12 patients with acute or chronic myeloid or myelomonocytic leukemia in whom karyotypic markers were present. The granulocytic colonies and clusters which developed on culture were shown to be derived from representative cells of the leukemic population. In two patients with acute leukemia in remission, normal colonies with a normal karyotype were grown from marrow cells but in two patients with chronic myeloid leukemia in remission the Ph^1^ abnormality persisted in colony cells. The agar culture technique appears to be ideal for following the emergence and disappearance of leukemic and normal granulopoietic populations in patients with these types of leukemia.