Preconditioning with fetal cord blood facilitates engraftment of primary childhood T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in immunodeficient mice.

Blood
D P DialynasJ Yu

Abstract

Childhood T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is one of the most common childhood cancers. It is reported that preconditioning sublethally irradiated immunodeficient NOD/SCID (nonobese diabetic/X-linked severe combined immunodeficient) mice with human cord blood mononuclear cells facilitates the engraftment, expansion, and dissemination in these mice of primary T-ALL cells obtained from patients at the time of diagnosis. Cells recovered from mouse bone marrow or spleen resembled the original leukemia cells from patients with respect to surface lineage markers and T-cell receptor Vbeta gene rearrangements. Moreover, the pattern of leukemia dissemination in mouse tissues, resulting in universally fatal leukemia, is reminiscent of the human clinical disease. In addition, the fidelity of the model to the human disease is documented with regard to the presence of morphologically identifiable human leukemia cells in mouse bone marrow and blood and the maintenance of leukemia-initiating capacity within the leukemia-engrafted mouse. Therefore, several lines of independent approaches are used to suggest that the engrafted cells are of human leukemia origin and are not derived from cord blood. The in vivo model described here sho...Continue Reading

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