title: Identification of CD34+ cells in normal and pathological bone marrow biopsies by QBEND10 monoclonal antibody.
abstract: Monoclonal antibody QBEND10 is reactive with the CD34 antigen in aldehyde-fixed, decalcified, paraffin-embedded bone marrow biopsies. In normal bone marrow it stained endothelial cells lining arterioles and capillaries, sinusoidal (littoral) cells and 0.89% of all haemopoietic cells. QBEND10+ mononuclear cells were seen as isolated, randomly distributed mononuclear cells in normal and regenerating bone marrows. Conversely, QBEND10+ cells were increased and present in aggregates of three or more cells in 6/8 cases of acute leukemia; in two cases of CD34-negative leukemia and in two patients after complete remission no aggregates were seen. QBEND10 immunohistochemistry may therefore be useful for diagnosis and follow-up of myeloid leukemias. In addition, increased numbers of CD34+ cells arranged in clusters were seen in 4/9 cases of refractory anemia with excess blasts (RAEB), 1 case of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, 3/3 cases of RAEB in transformation, and in 3/7 cases of chronic myelogenous leukemia: in all these cases, CD34 staining of the bone biopsy may have prognostic value. QBEND10+ endothelial cells were significantly increased in all the pathological conditions examined (1.43% of all nucleated cells versus 0.80% in normal bone marrow; p = 0.0063), but especially in myeloid leukemias and in two fibrotic syndromes examined.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Scienze Mediche, University of Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Soligo
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Delia
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oriani
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cattoretti
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Orazi
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bertolli
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Quirici
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Deliliers
mesh_terms: D000754:Anemia, Refractory, with Excess of Blasts / Q000473:pathology; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D015703:Antigens, CD / Q000032:analysis*; D018952:Antigens, CD34; D001706:Biopsy; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D005404:Fixatives; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology; D006801:Humans; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000473:pathology*; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000473:pathology*; D009190:Myelodysplastic Syndromes / Q000473:pathology*; D010232:Paraffin; D055728:Primary Myelofibrosis / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D015703:Antigens, CD; D018952:Antigens, CD34; D005404:Fixatives; D010232:Paraffin