title: Plasma M-CSF as an indicator of response to chemotherapy in adult T cell leukemia patients.
abstract: The plasma concentration of macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) was measured in 10 patients with acute type adult T cell leukemia (ATL) during the clinical course before and after chemotherapy. M-CSF concentration decreased significantly when the patients achieved complete remission (CR) or partial remission (PR) (t-test: p = 0.0001). Five of the patients showed disease progression after several months of PR, and plasma M-CSF increased at that time (t-test: p = 0.0456). Thus, plasma M-CSF concentration appeared to accurately reflect the disease activity in ATL. In support of these results, all three ATL cell lines established from these patients secreted M-CSF in vitro after stimulation with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) or concanavalin A (Con A). Plasma M-CSF concentration, however, increased transiently when the patients were febrile (t-test: p = 0.0001), even though their ATL condition was unchanged. Taken together, these results indicate that there are two sources of increased plasma M-CSF concentration in ATL; ATL cells themselves and normal parenchymal cells that cause this increase as the result of elevated body temperature due to inflammation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ohmoto
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamamura
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Murata
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsukasaki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jo
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Momita
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kohno
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hata
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kamihira
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tomonaga
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood; D018450:Disease Progression; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000097:blood* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor