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The Role of the Microenvironment In the Pathogenesis of CLL Thomas J. Kipps, MD, PhD. …get by with a little help from my freinds. Viability of CLL Cells in Culture. w/ stroma. w/out stroma. Percent Viability. Days. “Nurse-like” Cells From the Blood of Patients with CLL.
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The Role of the Microenvironment In the Pathogenesis of CLL Thomas J. Kipps, MD, PhD
Viability of CLL Cells in Culture w/ stroma w/out stroma Percent Viability Days
Seed Blood Cells at 1 to 1.5 x 107/ml After 10 to 14 days, harvest non-adherent leukemia cells and put on another Flask for 3 hrs to eliminate contaminating adherent cells Seed on plate with or without nurse-like cells NLC (+) NLC (-)
Survival of CLL Cells In vitro Dependent Upon Nurselike Cells with NLC without NLC Percent Viability Days in Culture
CLL Cells Cultured Without NLC Experience Reduction in Mcl-1, PARP Cleavage, and Caspase Activation Survival In Culture 3 2 1 pre- culture PARP 3 with NLC day 3 w/o NLC day 3 1 T=0 uncleaved cleaved % viability with NLC Caspase 3 w/o NLC proform 2 active p17 Days after re-seeding Mcl-1 Bcl-2