Abnormal macrophage development in Hodgkin's disease: a morphometric study.
The development of macrophages from blood monocytes from 22 patients with untreated Hodgkin's disease and 20 normal subjects has been studied at intervals over a 6-day period of suspension culture in the presence of autologous serum and lymphocytes. Morphometric measurements were made on electron micrographs and the results subjected to multivariate and univariate analyses of variance. The cells from the Hodgkin's group showed highly significant differences from normal. The whole-cell volume, surface area, and cell membrane excess, as well as the mitochondrial volume and surface area, showed smaller increases over the period of culture, and the normal increase in mitochondrial profile numbers was not seen. It would appear that although the patients' monocytes transformed into macrophages in culture, their development was seriously deranged.
Sokol
R J
RJ
Department of Haematology, University of Sheffield, England.
Hudson
G
G
James
N T
NT
Wales
J
J
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008264:Macrophages / Q000473:pathology* / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008297:Male; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000473:pathology