title: Leukaemogenic potency of WEHI-3B cells grown in vitro or in leukaemic mice.
abstract: In order to quantify contaminating leukaemia inducing cells in blood or bone marrow from WEHI-3B bearing BALB/c mice (injected with 10(5) WEHI-3B suspension culture cells), in vitro colony forming leukaemia cells (CFU-L) and survival rate and/or survival time of mice transplanted with cells from WEHI bearing mice or suspension culture were correlated. ED(50) (inoculum inducing leukaemia in 50% of the animals) was 109 CFU-L (33-361) from suspension culture cells. Three weeks after initiation of leukaemia 2 x 10(5) BM or 0.5-2.0 x 10(6) blood cells induced 100% mortality of recipients. After mobilisation with CY or CY and G-CSF, the same amount of blood or BM cells did not induce leukaemia in recipients. A significant negative correlation was found between the survival time of leukaemic mice and the log number of CFU-L inoculated from in vivo sources. In terms of CFU-L cells, leukaemia induction to BM or WBC obtained 3 weeks after leukaemia induction were more potent; those from BM or WBC also obtained at 3 weeks but after mobilisation were less potent inducers than those from suspension culture. These data suggest that CFU-L and leukaemogenic cells are associated, but not identical.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Haematology and Immunology, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gidáli
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fehér
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Megyeri
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kovács
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology*; D003520:Cyclophosphamide / Q000494:pharmacology; D005260:Female; D000069585:Filgrastim; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology; D019650:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Mobilization; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects; D015479:Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Acute / Q000473:pathology*; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating; D014411:Neoplastic Stem Cells / Q000145:classification / Q000473:pathology / Q000637:transplantation; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000637:transplantation; D014410:Tumor Stem Cell Assay
chemical_list: D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor; D003520:Cyclophosphamide; D000069585:Filgrastim