Suppressed formation of bone marrow adherent layers derived from acute myeloid leukemia patients after in vitro exposure to interleukin-4

Meir Wetzler, Razelle Kurzrock, Zeev Estrov, Steve Barone, Elihu Estey, Moshe Talpaz

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Abstract

Long-term bone marrow cultures from ten acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients exposed to recombinant human (rhu) interleukin (IL) 4 from culture initiation failed to develop adherent layers at 5 weeks as compared to controls. The adherent layers from two of our patients expressed IL-1β transcripts constitutively, and all produced IL-6 and leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) proteins. Our results demonstrate that rhulL-4 markedly inhibited AML-derived adherent layer formation in a time- and dose-dependent manner, and this effect was not mediated through enhanced apoptosis and did not correlate with IL-1β, IL-6 or LIF production.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)519-527
Number of pages9
JournalLeukemia Research
Volume21
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1997

Keywords

  • Acute myelogenous leukemia
  • Adherent layers
  • Cytokine
  • Interleukin

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Hematology
  • Oncology
  • Cancer Research

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