Abstract
A study was made of 29 patients with monoclonal gammopathies to detect aberrations in immunoglobulin (Ig) light chain isotype expression in lymphocytes at various levels of B-cell differentiation, namely, circulating surface Ig positive (SIg+) cells, Ig-secreting cells (plaque forming cells, PFC) and mitogen-induced PFC. By using kappa-lambda analysis, two major phenotypes of aberrant Ig light chain isotype expression were found in circulating B cells at these three levels of differentiation: an absolute increase in B cells bearing the same Ig light chain isotype as that of monoclonal protein (clonal B-cell excess), and a relative decrease in those B cells (isotypic discordance). Isotypic discordance (ID) was found to be essentially negative in patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) provided that they were in a stable condition. In myeloma patients, ID was found only in stage I, except for a remission case of stage III (4/7 in stage I, 0/8 in stage II, and 1/6 in stage III). ID was not restricted to a circulating SIg+ cell level but was also demonstrable at a spontaneous or pokeweed mitogen-induced PFC level. However, ID was negative at a PFC level induced by Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I. Clona...Continue Reading
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