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Human bone marrow cells from 20 patients as well as the permanent human B-cell lines RPMI 1788, Raji, Daudi, T-cell lines Molt, CEM, Jurkat and the promyelocytic line HL 60 were assayed by means of a newly developed in vitro flow cytometric cytostatic drug assay. The cells were exposed to cytosine-arabinoside, L-asparaginase, daunorubicin, prednisone or vincristine. Surviving cells were stained after an incubation period of 2 to 7 days with esterase and pH-indicator dye ADB (1,4-diacetoxy-2,3-dicyanobenzene), dead cells with DNA-dye PI (propidium iodide). Dose-response curves were established using percent surviving cells. It was possible to evaluate bone marrow samples from 16 out of 20 patients. Seven samples were leukemic (acute myeloid leukemia (AML) n=6, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) n=1). Nine samples were from patients either in complete remission or with benign diseases. Daunorubicin and cytosine-arabinoside were cytotoxic in both groups, whereas vincristine was effective mainly in the leukemic group (p<0.05). There was significant heterogeneity in the reactivity of AML-marrow cells from different patients to different drugs. The cell lines exhibited different patterns of sensitivity. Vincristine arrested cells in G2/M-phase, cytosine-arabinoside caused an increase of cells in the S-phase.
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Neubauer, A., Sauer, H. & Valet, G. Cytostatic drug testing in human leukemias by means of multiparametric flow cytometry. Blut 55, 433–445 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00367460
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