title: Analysis of human dysplastic haematopoiesis in long-term bone marrow culture.
abstract: In this paper we have analysed the behaviour of myelodysplastic marrow in a long-term bone marrow liquid culture system (LTBMC) from eleven patients with myelodysplastic syndromes with regard to cellularity, day-7 and day-14 CFU-GM growth, cluster formation, adherent cells and CFU-F formation. An altered CFU-GM pattern was found in 64% of cases at diagnosis, while normal growth was seen in the remaining cases, all of which were affected by refractory anaemia. The levels of CFU-GM, as well as cellularity, were reduced in myelodysplastic marrows compared to normal controls over the whole duration of LTBMCs. Cases with a normal CFU-GM level at diagnosis also showed pathological behaviour when examined in LTBMC. The duration of dysplastic haematopoiesis was significantly shorter than that of controls. The proliferative ability of CFU-F was reduced in 50% of cases as shown by replating experiments. In conclusion, myelodysplastic marrow shows an abnormal behaviour in LTBMC, even in those cases which present normal CFU-GM growth at diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Cattedra di Ematologia, Istituto di Clinica Medica I, Universitá di Palermo, Italia.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gebbia
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Miserendino
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miceli
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Colucci
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Reyes
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rausa
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Di Marco
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Citarrella
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D015672:Erythroid Precursor Cells / Q000473:pathology; D006410:Hematopoiesis; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009190:Myelodysplastic Syndromes / Q000473:pathology*