title: [Detection of B-lymphocyte clonality in samples of salivary gland tissue in patients with primary Sjogren syndrome].
abstract: Intensive lymphoplasmocytic infiltration with atrophy of glandular tissue structures is the dominant patohistological feature found in exocrine glands of patients with Sjögren syndrome (SS). The infiltrates consist of T and B lymphocyte clusters that make the structures resembling germinal centers, and numerous plasmocytes that are secreting imunoglobulines locally, including autoantibodies. By applying the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in our study we have shown the existence of dominant B cell clone in salivary glands samples of 4 out of 6 patients with SS, in the absence of clinical, routine laboratory, and patohistological signs of the lymphoma. B lymphocyte clones were detected upon the amplification of gene segment that encoded variable heavy chain immunoglobulin CDR3 region. Finding of single, dominant B lymphocyte clone could be of predictive significance, because these patients are predisposed to non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) for which there is an assumption that it originates out of salivary glands from one of the clusters of proliferating B lymphocytes.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vojvodic
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Magic
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stefanovic
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cikota
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ilic
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jovic
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Tatic
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Colic
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology; D002999:Clone Cells; D022801:Complementarity Determining Regions / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D015326:Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Heavy Chain; D006801:Humans; D007143:Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains / Q000235:genetics; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012469:Salivary Glands / Q000473:pathology*; D012859:Sjogren's Syndrome / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D022801:Complementarity Determining Regions; D007143:Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains
vernacular_title: Detekcija klonalnosti B limfocita u uzorcima tkiva pljuvacnih zlezda bolesnika sa primarnim Sjegrenovim sindromom.