HUMAN THY-1 - EXPRESSION ON THE CELL-SURFACE OF NEURONAL AND GLIAL-CELLS
HUMAN THY-1 - EXPRESSION ON THE CELL-SURFACE OF NEURONAL AND GLIAL-CELLS
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DOI:
10.1016/0006-8993(82)90727-2
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
GREAVES, MF
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作者:
KEMSHEAD, JT;RITTER, MA;GREAVES, MF
The distribution and amount of the Thy-1 antigen (a neural tissue cell surface glycoprotein) was measured on 4 human neuronal and 2 neuroglial cell lines and on fresh tumor cells of neuronal origin. In 3 of 4 neuronal lines (LAN-1, TR14, CHP 212) > 90% of cells were Thy-1+; however, LAN-1 cells showed only weak immunofluorescence and bore on average 2.4 times fewer molecules of Thy-1 per cell than those of TR14 or CHP 212. The mean number of Thy-1 molecules per TR14 cell was .apprx. 2.25 .times. 105. Only 66% of cells in the 4th neuronal line (CHP 100) were Thy-1+, although these showed strong immunofluorescence. Both glial cell lines, UCH-203 and H314/123, showed strong Thy-1 immunofluorescence on > 90% of cells. With fresh neuronal tumor cells, although .apprx. 80% of tumors were Thy-1+ (essentially 100% of cells in these being positive), there were considerable differences in the intensity of labeling by immunofluorescence between different tumors. Such heterogeneity in cell lines and malignancy may reflect normal in vivo variation. Different phenotypes might therefore represent separate neural cell lineages, or simply differences in maturational status within a lineage. The very low frequency of Thy-1+ cells in normal bone marrow (< 0.1% of nucleated cells) indicates that anti-Thy-1 antibodies may be valuable in the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of neuroblastoma.