title: Effects of cytapheresis on cell cycle distribution of peripheral blood and bone marrow cells in some hematological malignancies.
abstract: Feulgen-DNA cytophotometry and 3H-thymidine autoradiography were used to evaluate therapeutic cytapheresis effects on cell cycle distributions of peripheral blood leukemic cells in 15 acute leukemia, 5 CML and 8 CLL patients and of bone marrow erythroblasts in 18 PV patients. Both individual cytapheresis procedures and a long-term program of cytapheresis altered cell cycle distributions and biochemistry which may be summarized as follows: An increase in percentage of cells in S-phase (acute leukemia, CML); a decrease in the differences between values of S-cell number obtained by cytophotometry and autoradiography (acute leukemia, CML, PV); a decrease in some cases in enlarged fraction of cells in G2 (blast crisis of CML, PV); an activation of G0----G1 transition and an increase in the PAS-positive lymphocyte fraction in CLL patients. An apparent increase of blasts in S-phase was found after a pheresis in acute leukemia patients who responded to subsequent chemotherapy. In "nonresponders", a pheresis had no effect on cell cycle distributions. The results of the study demonstrate that despite the wide variability of individual responses, cytapheresis activates cell proliferation and metabolic processes in patients with hematological malignancies.
mesh_terms: D001752:Blast Crisis; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology*; D002453:Cell Cycle; D004900:Erythroblasts / Q000473:pathology; D007937:Leukapheresis; D007938:Leukemia / Q000097:blood*; D011087:Polycythemia Vera / Q000097:blood / Q000473:pathology*; D013997:Time Factors