title: Survival and characteristics of murine leukaemic and normal stem cells after hyperthermia: a murine model for human bone marrow purging.
abstract: The effect of hyperthermia in vitro on the survival and leukaemogenic effectiveness of WEHI 3-B cells and on the survival and transplantation efficiency of bone marrow cells was compared in a murine model system. Normal murine clonogenic haemopoietic cells (day 9 CFU-S and CFU-GM) proved to be significantly less sensitive to 42.5 degrees C hyperthermia (Do values: 54.3 and 41.1 min, respectively) than leukaemic clonogenic cells (CFU-L) derived from suspension culture or from bone marrow of leukaemic mice (Do: 17.8 min). Exposure for 120 min to 42.5 degrees C reduced the surviving fraction of CFU-L to 0.002 and that of CFU-S to 0.2. If comparable graft sizes were transplanted from normal or heat exposed bone marrow, 60-day survival of supralethally irradiated mice was similar. Surviving WEHI 3-B cells were capable of inducing leukaemia in vivo. The two log difference in the surviving fraction of CFU-L and CFU-S after 120 min exposure to 42.5 degrees C suggests that hyperthermia ex vivo may be a suitable purging method for autologous bone marrow transplantation.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gidáli
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Szamosvölgyi
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fehér
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kovács
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology*; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D002469:Cell Separation; D002470:Cell Survival; D006098:Granulocytes; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000473:pathology*; D006979:Hyperthermia, Induced; D007942:Leukemia, Experimental / Q000473:pathology*; D008264:Macrophages; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008954:Models, Biological; D014411:Neoplastic Stem Cells / Q000473:pathology*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013154:Spleen / Q000166:cytology