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Abnormal Macrophage Development in Hodgkin's Disease: A Morphometric Study
Author(s) -
Sokol R.J.,
Hudson G.,
James N.T.,
Wales J.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of leukocyte biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.819
H-Index - 191
eISSN - 1938-3673
pISSN - 0741-5400
DOI - 10.1002/jlb.44.6.493
Subject(s) - biology , macrophage , suspension culture , pathology , univariate analysis , disease , univariate , andrology , immunology , multivariate analysis , cell culture , medicine , multivariate statistics , in vitro , genetics , statistics , mathematics
The development of macrophages from blood monocytes from 22 patients with untreated Hodgkin's disease and 20 normal subjects has been studied at intervals over a 6‐day period of suspension culture in the presence of autologous serum and lymphocytes. Morphometric measurements were made on electron micrographs and the results subjected to multivariate and univariate analyses of variance. The cells from the Hodgkin's group showed highly significant differences from normal. The whole‐cell volume, surface area, and cell membrane excess, as well as the mitochondrial volume and surface area, showed smaller increases over the period of culture, and the normal increase in mitochondrial profile numbers was not seen. It would appear that although the patients' monocytes transformed into macrophages in culture, their development was seriously deranged.