scholarly journals Megakaryoblastic leukemia: the characterization and identification of megakaryoblasts

Blood ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 683-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Koike

This article describes three patients with megakaryoblastic leukemia, in whom the blast cells were identified as megakaryoblasts by the platelet peroxidase (PPO) reaction. More than 70% of the blasts in these patients were positive for the PPO reaction. Ultrastructurally, acid phosphatase activity in the megakaryoblasts was detected in the nuclear envelope, the endoplasmic reticulum, and in a few granules, but not in the Golgi cisternae. Some blast cells were identified by immunofluorescence or immunoalkaline phosphatase, using monoclonal antiplatelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antibody. In one patient, most of the blasts were positive for anti-HLA-DR monoclonal antibody. The possible order of the appearance of markers in the maturation of the megakaryocytic cell lineage is postulated, based on the data from the present cases and those previously reported. PPO activity appears in very immature cells, which retain Ia-like antigens. Platelet-specific glycoprotein IIb/IIIa is seen in immature cells that are only recognized by PPO activity.

Blood ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 683-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Koike

Abstract This article describes three patients with megakaryoblastic leukemia, in whom the blast cells were identified as megakaryoblasts by the platelet peroxidase (PPO) reaction. More than 70% of the blasts in these patients were positive for the PPO reaction. Ultrastructurally, acid phosphatase activity in the megakaryoblasts was detected in the nuclear envelope, the endoplasmic reticulum, and in a few granules, but not in the Golgi cisternae. Some blast cells were identified by immunofluorescence or immunoalkaline phosphatase, using monoclonal antiplatelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antibody. In one patient, most of the blasts were positive for anti-HLA-DR monoclonal antibody. The possible order of the appearance of markers in the maturation of the megakaryocytic cell lineage is postulated, based on the data from the present cases and those previously reported. PPO activity appears in very immature cells, which retain Ia-like antigens. Platelet-specific glycoprotein IIb/IIIa is seen in immature cells that are only recognized by PPO activity.


1962 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Essner ◽  
Alex B. Novikoff

The Reuber hepatoma H-35 and Morris hepatoma 5123 have been studied by electron microscopy and by cytochemical staining methods for a number of phosphatases. These studies emphasize the resemblances of the two tumors to rat liver, but they also indicate distinctive features in each of the three tissues. Secretory product accumulates within the cisternae of the Golgi apparatus that dilate to form the Golgi vacuoles. The vacuoles apparently separate, and secretory material undergoes further condensation within them. These "secretory vacuoles" possess acid phosphatase activity and may thus be considered lysosomes. The membranes of the Golgi apparatus are without acid phosphatase activity but show high levels of thiaminepyrophosphatase activity. The endoplasmic reticulum also hydrolyzes thiaminepyrophosphate but at a lower rate; it hydrolyzes the diphosphates of uridine, guanosine, and inosine rapidly. These observations and the electron microscopic images are consistent with the view that the cytomembranes are in a dynamic state of flux, movement, and transformation in the living cell, and that smooth surfaced derivatives of the endoplasmic reticulum become refashioned into the Golgi membranes as the Golgi membranes are being refashioned into those that delimit secretory vacuoles. The variations encountered in the two hepatomas are described. The electron microscope literature dealing with the relations of the Golgi apparatus to secretory granules, on the one hand, and the endoplasmic reticulum, on the other, is reviewed briefly.


1978 ◽  
Vol 56 (11) ◽  
pp. 2299-2311 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. Jones ◽  
A. S. M. Saleuddin

The periostracum comprises an external lamella, 13 nm thick, and one sublamellar layer. Periostracal cells secrete the lamella as preformed periostracal units. The mantle edge gland (meg) produces most of the sublamellar layer. A sequence of formation of periostracal units within the periostracal cells is suggested. Homogeneous inclusions, possibly Golgi derived, fuse into larger, irregular inclusions. Within these inclusions, three-layered membranes, 7 nm thick, arise from the homogeneous material. The membranes fuse in pairs to form the five-layered, 13-nm periostracal units. Acid phosphatase activity has been localised al the surfaces of the periostracal units and might be involved in modifying the units prior to their discharge. Phenoloxidase and polyphenols have been localised in the meg, suggesting that this region is responsible for periostracal sclerotisation. Phenoloxidase activity is present in Golgi, rough endoplasmic reticulum, and apical secretory inclusions in cells in the anterior two-thirds of the meg. Polyphenols are present in apical secretory inclusions, particulary in three or four cells in the posterior meg. This distribution may suggest that phenoloxidase is incorporated into all levels of the sublamellar layer and that sclerotisation occurs subsequently when the enzyme substrate is presented.


1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (12) ◽  
pp. 2887-2895
Author(s):  
Louis Genevès ◽  
Jacques Rutin

Protein bodies were characterized at an early stage of their maturation in thin green cotyledons of developing radish embryos. They appeared as granules in the cytoplasm of meristematic cells. Their diameter (0.5 to 1 μm) was in the range of that of mitochondria. They were distinguished from vacuoles by their morphology, size, and structure. Some appeared to be associated with cisternae of endoplasmic reticulum or dictyosomes (permanganic fixations). Their evolution was synchronous in the cell and also in the cotyledonary tissue. Compact in appearance, they were constituted of thin packed fibrillar structures, limited by a denser peripheral layer. It is difficult to know whether or not they had a limiting membrane. Some possessed thin dense crystals or globoids (aldehydic fixations). During this early phase, several types of organelles seemed to contribute to the development of protein bodies, including saccules of rough endoplasmic reticulum and dictyosomes. Polyribosomes constituted a network around their surface. They did not exhibit any acid phosphatase activity. In this respect, they differed from the vacuoles, saccules of endoplasmic reticulum, and several neighbouring vesicles.


Blood ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 722-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Link ◽  
R Warnke ◽  
J Finlay ◽  
M Amylon ◽  
R Miller ◽  
...  

Abstract Immunophenotyping studies with monoclonal antibodies have revealed the heterogeneity of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and non- Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). The lymphoid malignancies of T-cell lineage are particularly heterogeneous and, until now, no single monoclonal antibody has been found to identify all cases of T-ALL and T-NHL. A monoclonal antibody, 4H9, recognizes an antigen of 40,000 molecular weight on normal and malignant T cells. Thirty-six cases of childhood T- ALL and T-NHL were tested, and in all cases, the malignant blast cells were reactive with 4H9, whereas malignant cells from 61 cases of non-T ALL and NHL were not reactive with 4H9. Monoclonal antibody 4H9 is a sensitive and specific reagent for the identification of childhood T- cell ALL and NHL and should be extremely useful in immunophenotyping studies of lymphoid malignancies.


1971 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 775-797 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDRÉE TIXIER-VIDAL ◽  
RENÉE PICART

Structures demonstrating the presence of glycoproteins, acid phosphatase activity and OsO4 impregnation were localized by means of the electron microscope in duck and in quail pituitary cells. Two methods for the electron microscopic demonstration of glycoproteins were used: a chromic acid-phosphotungstic acid mixture on glycol-methacrylate-embedded tissues, and the periodic acid-thiocarbohydrazide-silver proteinate technique. Both methods showed glycoproteins in the following sites: ( a) the secretory granules in three types of cells (A, B, C) which are part of the seven different cells of the avian pituitary; ( b) the several kinds of dense bodies which are richer in reaction product than the secretory granules. A correlation with previous studies on similar species of birds is helpful in identifying each of the three positive types of cells as thyrotropic cell (A), prolactin cell (B) and gonadotropic cell (C). The presence of glycoproteins within the Golgi saccules (on condensing granules) was found with the periodic acid-thiocarbohydrazide-silver proteinate method in these gonadotropic cells only. In gonadotropic and thyrotropic cells, acid phosphatase activity is weak in the inner Golgi saccules and strong in the "Golgi Endoplasmic Reticulum Lysosomes" system, in the lysosomes, in the dense bodies and in the vacuolated dense bodies. The structures which are richest in glycoproteins are also those which have the most acid phosphatase activity. On the contrary, OsO4-stained structures in duck gonadotropic cells (nuclear pericisterna, rough endoplasmic reticulum, cisternae and outer Golgi saccules) have no glycoproteins or acid phosphatase activity.


Blood ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 722-728
Author(s):  
M Link ◽  
R Warnke ◽  
J Finlay ◽  
M Amylon ◽  
R Miller ◽  
...  

Immunophenotyping studies with monoclonal antibodies have revealed the heterogeneity of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and non- Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). The lymphoid malignancies of T-cell lineage are particularly heterogeneous and, until now, no single monoclonal antibody has been found to identify all cases of T-ALL and T-NHL. A monoclonal antibody, 4H9, recognizes an antigen of 40,000 molecular weight on normal and malignant T cells. Thirty-six cases of childhood T- ALL and T-NHL were tested, and in all cases, the malignant blast cells were reactive with 4H9, whereas malignant cells from 61 cases of non-T ALL and NHL were not reactive with 4H9. Monoclonal antibody 4H9 is a sensitive and specific reagent for the identification of childhood T- cell ALL and NHL and should be extremely useful in immunophenotyping studies of lymphoid malignancies.


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