In the course of analyzing human lymphoma tissue with conventional surface marker techniques and with monoclonal antibodies directed against T cell subsets, five tumors were encountered with dual B and T cell determinants. All bore on their surface membrane IgM of kappa light chain type, complement receptors, and the Ia-like antigen. In each of the five cases, the neoplastic lymphocytes reacted with a monoclonal antibody that detects the sheep erythrocyte receptor (OKT11); all but one reacted with a monoclonal antibody for peripheral T cells (OKT3); and all but one reacted with a monoclonal antibody specific for either the inducer-helper (OKT4) or the cytotoxic-suppressor (OKT8) T cell subsets. In addition, lymphocytes from two of the five cases formed spontaneous rosettes with sheep erythrocytes (E-rosettes). These tumors with dual B and T surface characteristics were confined to human malignant lymphomas that originate from B lymphocytes of the follicle center.
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November 01 1981
Malignant lymphoma with dual B and T cell markers. Analysis of the neoplastic cells with monoclonal antibodies directed against T cell subsets.
A C Aisenberg
K J Bloch
B M Wilkes
Online ISSN: 1540-9538
Print ISSN: 0022-1007
J Exp Med (1981) 154 (5): 1709–1714.
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A C Aisenberg, K J Bloch, B M Wilkes; Malignant lymphoma with dual B and T cell markers. Analysis of the neoplastic cells with monoclonal antibodies directed against T cell subsets.. J Exp Med 1 November 1981; 154 (5): 1709–1714. doi: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.154.5.1709
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