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Singh R, Sharma P, Wadhwan V. Neutrophils defending the defenders. J Oral Maxillofac Pathol 2021; 25:177-182. [PMID: 34349432 PMCID: PMC8272482 DOI: 10.4103/jomfp.jomfp_495_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2020] [Revised: 02/06/2021] [Accepted: 03/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Neutrophils are the most abundant granulocytes which are involved in defense mechanism. As innate immune cells, they are first-line defenders and can perform different functions in the human body to maintain equilibrium. Neutrophils are the main leukocyte and their role in healthy oral cavity is to face pathological changes within oral environment. With regard to these, it has been observed that neutrophils are highly heterogeneous in their behavior. The aim of this review is to give an overview of the role of neutrophils in context of various physiological and pathological conditions.
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- Roli Singh
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Oral Microbiology, Subharti Dental College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Oral Microbiology, Subharti Dental College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Oral Microbiology, Subharti Dental College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Dale DC, Mackey MC. Understanding, treating and avoiding hematological disease: better medicine through mathematics? Bull Math Biol 2014; 77:739-57. [PMID: 25213154 DOI: 10.1007/s11538-014-9995-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2014] [Accepted: 07/08/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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This paper traces the experimental, clinical and mathematical modeling efforts to understand a periodic hematological disease-cyclical neutropenia. It is primarily a highly personal account by two scientists from quite different backgrounds of their interactions over almost 40 years and their attempts to understand this intriguing disease. It's also a story of their efforts to offer effective treatments for the patients who suffer from cyclic neutropenia and other conditions causing neutropenia and infections.
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- David C Dale
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA,
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Isolated neutropenia is a common clinical problem seen by primary care physicians and hematologists. The evaluation of neutropenia is dictated by the acuity of the clinical presentation and the duration, age, and clinical status of the patient. In this review, we provide a practical approach to the evaluation of the adult patient with neutropenia, with the major focus on the evaluation of neutropenia in the outpatient setting.
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Sima C, Glogauer M. Neutrophil Dysfunction and Host Susceptibility to Periodontal Inflammation: Current State of Knowledge. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s40496-014-0015-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Understanding and Treating Cytopenia Through Mathematical Modeling. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2014; 844:279-302. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2095-2_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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A patient with cyclic neutropenia was followed for 20 years. After 16 years she developed a permanent agranulocytosis, and lived for nearly four years without neutrophils in the peripheral blood. Neither prednisone, lithium nor leuco- and plasmapheresis had any effect on the neutrophil count.
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- P Boesen
- Department of Internal Medicine and Haematology, Aalborg Hospital, Denmark
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Lawrence T, Puel A, Reichenbach J, Ku CL, Chapgier A, Renner E, Minard-Colin V, Ouachée M, Casanova JL. Autosomal-dominant primary immunodeficiencies. Curr Opin Hematol 2005; 12:22-30. [PMID: 15604887 DOI: 10.1097/01.moh.0000149609.37309.0a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The vast majority of known primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) are autosomal or X-linked recessive Mendelian traits. Only four classical primary immunodeficiencies are thought to be autosomal-dominant, three of which still lack a well-defined genetic etiology: isolated congenital asplenia, isolated chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis, and hyper IgE syndrome. The large deletions on chromosome 22q11.2 associated with Di George syndrome suggest that this disease may be dominant but not Mendelian, possibly involving several genes. The clinical and genetic features of six novel autosomal-dominant primary immunodeficiencies have however been described in recent years. These primary immunodeficiencies are caused by germline mutations in seven genes: ELA2, encoding a neutrophil elastase, and GFI1, encoding a regulator of ELA2 (mutations associated with severe congenital neutropenia); CXCR4, encoding a chemokine receptor (warts, hypogammaglobulinemia, infections and myelokathexis syndrome); LCRR8, encoding a key protein for B-cell development (agammaglobulinemia); IFNGR1, encoding the ligand-binding chain of the interferon-gamma receptor; STAT1, encoding the signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 downstream from interferon-gammaR1 (Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial diseases); and IKBA, encoding IkappaBalpha, the inhibitor alpha of NF-kappaB (anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia with immunodeficiency). These recent data suggest that many more autosomal-dominant PIDs are likely to be identified in the near future.
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- Tatiana Lawrence
- Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, University of Paris, René Descartes INSERM U550, Paris, France
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Horwitz M, Benson KF, Duan Z, Li FQ, Person RE. Hereditary neutropenia: dogs explain human neutrophil elastase mutations. Trends Mol Med 2004; 10:163-70. [PMID: 15059607 DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2004.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Mutations in ELA2, the gene encoding neutrophil elastase (NE), cause the human diseases cyclic neutropenia (CN) and severe congenital neutropenia (SCN). Numerous mutations are known, but their lack of consistent biochemical effect has proven puzzling. The recent finding that mutation of AP3B1, which encodes the beta subunit of adaptor protein complex 3 (AP3), is the cause of canine CN suggests a model for the molecular basis of hereditary neutropenias, involving the mistrafficking of NE: AP3 recognizes NE as a cargo protein, and their interaction implies that NE is a transmembrane protein. Computerized algorithms predict two NE transmembrane domains. Most CN mutations fall within predicted transmembrane domains and lead to excessive deposition of NE in granules, whereas SCN mutations usually disrupt the AP3 recognition sequence, resulting in excessive transport to the plasma membrane.
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- Marshall Horwitz
- Division of Medical Genetics/Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1705 NE Pacific Street, HSB-K236B, Box 357720 Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Deas DE, Mackey SA, McDonnell HT. Systemic disease and periodontitis: manifestations of neutrophil dysfunction. Periodontol 2000 2003; 32:82-104. [PMID: 12756035 DOI: 10.1046/j.0906-6713.2003.03207.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- David E Deas
- Director of Clinical Periodontics US Air Force Periodontics Residency Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Clarkson B, Strife A, Wisniewski D, Lambek CL, Liu C. Chronic myelogenous leukemia as a paradigm of early cancer and possible curative strategies. Leukemia 2003; 17:1211-62. [PMID: 12835715 DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2402912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The chronological history of the important discoveries leading to our present understanding of the essential clinical, biological, biochemical, and molecular features of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) are first reviewed, focusing in particular on abnormalities that are responsible for the massive myeloid expansion. CML is an excellent target for the development of selective treatment because of its highly consistent genetic abnormality and qualitatively different fusion gene product, p210(bcr-abl). It is likely that the multiple signaling pathways dysregulated by p210(bcr-abl) are sufficient to explain all the initial manifestations of the chronic phase of the disease, although understanding of the circuitry is still very incomplete. Evidence is presented that the signaling pathways that are constitutively activated in CML stem cells and primitive progenitors cooperate with cytokines to increase the proportion of stem cells that are activated and thereby increase recruitment into the committed progenitor cell pool, and that this increased activation is probably the primary cause of the massive myeloid expansion in CML. The cooperative interactions between Bcr-Abl and cytokine-activated pathways interfere with the synergistic interactions between multiple cytokines that are normally required for the activation of stem cells, while at the same time causing numerous subtle biochemical and functional abnormalities in the later progenitors and precursor cells. The committed CML progenitors have discordant maturation and reduced proliferative capacity compared to normal committed progenitors, and like them, are destined to die after a limited number of divisions. Thus, the primary goal of any curative strategy must be to eliminate all Philadelphia positive (Ph+) primitive cells that are capable of symmetric division and thereby able to expand the Ph+ stem cell pool and recreate the disease. Several highly potent and moderately selective inhibitors of Bcr-Abl kinase have recently been discovered that are capable of killing the majority of actively proliferating early CML progenitors with minimal effects on normal progenitors. However, like their normal counterparts, most of the CML primitive stem cells are quiescent at any given time and are relatively invulnerable to the Bcr-Abl kinase inhibitors as well as other drugs. We propose that survival of dormant Ph+ stem cells may be the most important reason for the inability to cure the disease during initial treatment, while resistance to the inhibitors and other drugs becomes increasingly important later. An outline of a possible curative strategy is presented that attempts to take advantage of the subtle differences in the proliferative behavior of normal and Ph+ stem cells and the newly discovered selective inhibitors of Bcr-Abl. Leukemia (2003) 17, 1211-1262. doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2402912
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MESH Headings
- Antineoplastic Agents/therapeutic use
- Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl/antagonists & inhibitors
- Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl/genetics
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells/pathology
- Humans
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/etiology
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/pathology
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/therapy
- Signal Transduction
- Treatment Outcome
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- B Clarkson
- Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Aprikyan AAG, Liles WC, Boxer LA, Dale DC. Mutant elastase in pathogenesis of cyclic and severe congenital neutropenia. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 2002; 24:784-6. [PMID: 12468929 DOI: 10.1097/00043426-200212000-00025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Severe neutropenia is characterized by maturation arrest of myeloid cells at the promyelocyte stage of hematopoiesis. We reported that accelerated apoptosis of bone marrow myeloid progenitor cells was observed in both cyclic (CN) and severe congenital neutropenia (SCN). Short and long-term cultures of bone marrow CD34+ cells revealed reduced production of multipotent progenitors in SCN. In contrast, production of these cells was slightly elevated in CN compared with CD34+ cells from healthy volunteers. Production of myeloid-committed progenitor cells was significantly reduced in both CN and SCN. FACS analysis of CD34+ cells revealed G /G cell cycle arrest in SCN but not in CN.(0) (1) All CN patients and more than 90% of SCN patients have mutation in the neutrophil elastase (NE) gene. Molecular modeling of NE tertiary structure indicates that mutations observed in SCN are primarily located around the glycosylation sites, whereas CN mutations affect predominantly the active site. Transient expression of CN- or SCN-specific mutant NE cDNA results in impaired survival of human myeloid progenitor cells compared with control cells transfected with intact NE cDNA. We hypothesize that abnormal processing and subcellular localization of mutant NE might predetermine the etiology of cyclic or severe congenital neutropenia.
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- Andrew A G Aprikyan
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195-6422, USA.
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Cyclic neutropenia is a rare hematologic disorder, characterized by repetitive episodes of fever, mouth ulcers, and infections attributable to recurrent severe neutropenia. Fluctuations in blood cells are due to oscillatory production of cells by the bone marrow. Recent genetic, molecular, and cellular studies have shown that autosomal-dominant cyclic neutropenia and sporadic cases of this disease are due to a mutation in the gene for neutrophil elastase (ELA2), located at 19p13.3. This enzyme is synthesized in neutrophil precursors early in the process of primary granule formation. It is currently presumed that the mutant neutrophil elastase functions aberrantly within the cells to accelerate apoptosis of the precursors, resulting in effective and oscillatory production. Cyclic neutropenia is effectively treated with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), usually at doses of 1 to 5 microg/kg/d (median dose, 2.5 microg/kg/d). Long-term, daily, or alternate-day administration reduces fever, mouth ulcers, and other inflammatory events associated with this disorder. Leukemic transformation is not a recognized risk for cyclic neutropenia, with or without treatment with G-CSF.
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- David C Dale
- Department of Medicine, and the Severe Chronic Neutropenia International Registry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-6422, USA
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Aprikyan AA, Dale DC. Mutations in the neutrophil elastase gene in cyclic and congenital neutropenia. Curr Opin Immunol 2001; 13:535-8. [PMID: 11543999 DOI: 10.1016/s0952-7915(00)00254-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Severe neutropenia disorders are characterized by extremely low levels of peripheral blood neutrophils, a maturation block of bone marrow progenitor cells and recurring severe bacterial and fungal infections. Recent reports indicated that severe neutropenia is a consequence of an impaired survival and abnormal cell cycle progression of myeloid progenitor cells in both cyclic and severe congenital neutropenia. Mutations in the neutrophil elastase gene were identified in all patients with cyclic neutropenia and most of the patients with severe congenital neutropenia. We hypothesize that expression of mutant neutrophil elastase protein results in deregulation of intracellular activity and premature cell death of myeloid-committed progenitor cells in these disorders, resulting in the lack of peripheral blood neutrophils. The potential molecular mechanisms of mutant-protein-mediated neutropenia is discussed.
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- A A Aprikyan
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Box 356422, Seattle, WA 98195-6522, USA.
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Lubitz PA, Dower N, Krol AL. Cyclic neutropenia: an unusual disorder of granulopoiesis effectively treated with recombinant granulocyte colony-stimulating factor. Pediatr Dermatol 2001; 18:426-32. [PMID: 11737691 DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1470.2001.01974.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Cyclic neutropenia (CN) is a rare hematologic disorder characterized by regular cycling of the absolute neutrophil count and a symptom complex presenting during the neutropenic nadirs. Despite the profound cyclic neutropenia, most patients have a benign course of recurrent fever, malaise, oral ulceration, and minor skin and upper respiratory tract infections. Recurrent infections, inflammation, and ulcers can lead to significant chronic morbidity. Severe dental disease is common, pregnancy complications are increased, and overwhelming infections, bowel necrosis, and mortality, although rare, are potential sequelae. We report a 10-year-old boy with a classical presentation of CN that had remained undiagnosed for 10 years. The difficulty in diagnosing this unusual disorder is highlighted. Treatment with daily recombinant granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rG-CSF) resulted in a complete clearing of symptoms and a significant increase in quality of life. The excellent clinical response of CN to rG-CSF, in the absence of major adverse effects, is strongly demonstrated by this case and supports rG-CSF as a first-line therapy for CN. The physiologic and adverse effects of rG-CSF use in CN and other neutropenic disorders, including potential leukemic induction, are reviewed. The need for long-term follow-up to investigate the effects of chronic hematopoietic stimulation by rG-CSF is emphasized.
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- P A Lubitz
- Division of Dermatology and Cutaneous Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Neutrophil disorders are an uncommon yet important cause of morbidity and mortality in infants and children. This article is an overview of these conditions, with emphasis on clinical recognition, rational investigation, and treatment. A comprehensive list of references is provided for further reading.
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- R Lakshman
- Sheffield Institute for Vaccine Studies, Division of Child Health, University of Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield S10 2TH, UK.
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Aprikyan AA, Liles WC, Rodger E, Jonas M, Chi EY, Dale DC. Impaired survival of bone marrow hematopoietic progenitor cells in cyclic neutropenia. Blood 2001; 97:147-53. [PMID: 11133754 DOI: 10.1182/blood.v97.1.147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Cyclic neutropenia (CN) is a congenital hematopoietic disorder characterized by remarkably regular oscillations of blood neutrophils from near normal to extremely low levels at 21-day intervals. Recurring episodes of severe neutropenia lead to repetitive and sometimes life-threatening infections. To investigate the cellular mechanism of CN, the ultrastructure and the proliferative and survival characteristics of bone marrow-derived CD34(+) early progenitors, CD33(+)/CD34(-) myeloid progenitors, and CD15(+) neutrophil precursors from CN patients and healthy volunteers were studied. The ultrastructural studies showed profound apoptotic features in bone marrow progenitor cells in CN. Colony-forming assays demonstrated a 75% decrease in the number of early myeloid-committed colonies compared with controls. Long-term culture-initiating cell assays demonstrated a 6-fold increase in production of primitive progenitor cells in CN. To determine whether accelerated apoptosis might account for the underproduction of myeloid progenitors, the hematopoietic subpopulations were labeled with fluorescein isothiocyanate-annexin V and analyzed by flow cytometry. Short-term culture of CN cells resulted in apoptosis of approximately 65% of CD34(+) cells, 80% of CD33(+)/CD34(-) cells, and more than 70% of CD15(+) cells, as compared with 20%, 7%, and 15% apoptosis in respective control subpopulations. Evidence of accelerated apoptosis of bone marrow progenitor cells was observed in all 8 patients participating in the study, regardless of the stage in the CN cycle in which bone marrow aspirations were obtained. Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor therapy of CN patients significantly improved survival of bone marrow progenitor cells. These data indicate that ineffective production of neutrophils is due to accelerated apoptosis of bone marrow myeloid progenitor cells in CN.
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- A A Aprikyan
- Departments of Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195-6422, USA
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Congenital neutropenia and cyclic neutropenia are disorders of neutrophil production predisposing patients to recurrent bacterial infections. Recently the locus for autosomal dominant cyclic neutropenia was mapped to chromosome 19p13.3, and this disease is now attributable to mutations of the gene encoding neutrophil elastase (the ELA2 gene). The authors hypothesized that congenital neutropenia is also due to mutations of neutrophil elastase. Patients with congenital neutropenia, cyclic neutropenia, or Shwachman-Diamond syndrome were referred to the Severe Chronic Neutropenia International Registry. Referring physicians provided hematologic and clinical data. Mutational analysis was performed by sequencing polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified genomic DNA for each of the 5 exons of the neutrophil ELA2 gene and 20 bases of the flanking regions. RNA from bone marrow mononuclear cells was used to determine if the affected patients expressed both the normal and the abnormal transcript. Twenty-two of 25 patients with congenital neutropenia had 18 different heterozygous mutations. Four of 4 patients with cyclic neutropenia and 0 of 3 patients with Shwachman-Diamond syndrome had mutations. For 5 patients with congenital neutropenia having mutations predicted to alter RNA splicing or transcript structure, reverse transcriptase-PCR showed expression of both normal and abnormal transcripts. In cyclic neutropenia, the mutations appeared to cluster near the active site of the molecule, whereas the opposite face was predominantly affected by the mutations found in congenital neutropenia. This study indicates that mutations of the gene encoding neutrophil elastase are probably the most common cause for severe congenital neutropenia as well as the cause for sporadic and autosomal dominant cyclic neutropenia.
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Congenital neutropenia and cyclic neutropenia are disorders of neutrophil production predisposing patients to recurrent bacterial infections. Recently the locus for autosomal dominant cyclic neutropenia was mapped to chromosome 19p13.3, and this disease is now attributable to mutations of the gene encoding neutrophil elastase (the ELA2 gene). The authors hypothesized that congenital neutropenia is also due to mutations of neutrophil elastase. Patients with congenital neutropenia, cyclic neutropenia, or Shwachman-Diamond syndrome were referred to the Severe Chronic Neutropenia International Registry. Referring physicians provided hematologic and clinical data. Mutational analysis was performed by sequencing polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified genomic DNA for each of the 5 exons of the neutrophil ELA2 gene and 20 bases of the flanking regions. RNA from bone marrow mononuclear cells was used to determine if the affected patients expressed both the normal and the abnormal transcript. Twenty-two of 25 patients with congenital neutropenia had 18 different heterozygous mutations. Four of 4 patients with cyclic neutropenia and 0 of 3 patients with Shwachman-Diamond syndrome had mutations. For 5 patients with congenital neutropenia having mutations predicted to alter RNA splicing or transcript structure, reverse transcriptase-PCR showed expression of both normal and abnormal transcripts. In cyclic neutropenia, the mutations appeared to cluster near the active site of the molecule, whereas the opposite face was predominantly affected by the mutations found in congenital neutropenia. This study indicates that mutations of the gene encoding neutrophil elastase are probably the most common cause for severe congenital neutropenia as well as the cause for sporadic and autosomal dominant cyclic neutropenia.
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Zeidler C, Boxer L, Dale DC, Freedman MH, Kinsey S, Welte K. Management of Kostmann syndrome in the G-CSF era. Br J Haematol 2000; 109:490-5. [PMID: 10886193 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2000.02064.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- C Zeidler
- Medizinische Hochschule, Hannover, Germany
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Fata F, Myers P, Addeo J, Grinberg M, Nawabi I, Cappell MS. Cyclic neutropenia in Crohn's ileocolitis: efficacy of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor. J Clin Gastroenterol 1997; 24:253-6. [PMID: 9252852 DOI: 10.1097/00004836-199706000-00015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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A 40-year-old patient with long-standing Crohn's ileocolitis in remission experienced cyclic neutropenia with a periodicity of 14 days. He was not receiving immunosuppressive or myelosuppressive therapy. The patient had Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia resulting from central catheter infection, which was refractory to antibiotic therapy during the period of severe neutropenia. When granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) was administered, the cyclic neutropenia rapidly disappeared, the neutrophil and leukocyte counts normalized, and the sepsis resolved. When G-CSF therapy was discontinued, the leukocyte and absolute neutrophil counts again declined. With reinstitution of therapy, the leukocyte and absolute neutrophil counts recovered and normalized. Crohn's ileocolitis remained in remission during G-CSF therapy. This report confirms and extends one previous report of cyclic neutropenia associated with Crohn's disease and demonstrates in one patient the efficacy and safety of G-CSF on the hematologic, bacteriologic, and clinical manifestations of cyclic neutropenia associated with Crohn's disease.
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- F Fata
- Division of Hematology-Oncology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11219, USA
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Palmer SE, Stephens K, Dale DC. Genetics, phenotype, and natural history of autosomal dominant cyclic hematopoiesis. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS 1996; 66:413-22. [PMID: 8989458 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19961230)66:4<413::aid-ajmg5>3.0.co;2-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Cyclic hematopoiesis, (CH, or cyclic neutropenia) is a rare disease manifested by transient severe neutropenia that recurs approximately every 21 days. The hematologic profile of families with the autosomal dominant form (ADCH) has not been well characterized, and it is unknown if the phenotype is distinct from the more common sporadic congenital or acquired forms of CH. We studied nine ADCH families whose children displayed typical CH blood patterns. Pedigrees confirmed dominant inheritance without evidence of heterogeneity or decreased penetrance; three pedigrees suggested new mutations. Families were Caucasian with exception of one with a Cherokee Native American founder: A wide spectrum of symptom severity, ranging from asymptomatic to life-threatening illness, was observed within families. The phenotype changed with age. Children displayed typical neutrophil cycles with symptoms of mucosal ulceration, lymphadenopathy, and infections. Adults often had fewer and milder chronic neutropenia without distinct cycles. While CH is commonly described as "benign", four children in three of the nine families died of Clostridium or E. coli colitis, documenting the need for urgent evaluation of abdominal pain. Misdiagnosis with other neutropenias was common but can be avoided by serial blood counts in index cases. Genetic counseling requires specific histories and complete blood counts in relatives at risk to assess status regardless of symptoms, especially to determine individuals with new mutations. We propose diagnostic criteria for ADCH in affected children and adults. Recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor treatment resulted in dramatic improvement of neutropenia and morbidity. The differential diagnosis from other forms of familial neutropenia is reviewed.
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- S E Palmer
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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Dale DC, Bolyard AA, Hammond WP. Cyclic neutropenia: natural history and effects of long-term treatment with recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor. Cancer Invest 1993; 11:219-23. [PMID: 7681723 DOI: 10.3109/07357909309024842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- D C Dale
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
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Neutropenia remains a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to primary care physicians. The clinical significance of neutropenia must always be interpreted within the context of the individual patient's presentation. Physicians who have an appreciation of the pathophysiologic mechanisms that produce neutropenia and familiarity with the commonly encountered clinical disorders can successfully evaluate and treat these conditions.
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- S J Russin
- Internal Medicine Residency Program, Hahnemann University School of Medicine, Philadelphia
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Tefferi A, Solberg LA, Petitt RM, Willis LG. Adult-onset cyclic bicytopenia: a case report and review of treatment of cyclic hematopoiesis. Am J Hematol 1989; 30:181-5. [PMID: 2644823 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.2830300311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A unique case of adult-onset synchronous cyclic neutropenia and thrombocytopenia occurring at six-week intervals is presented. Periods of cytopenia were associated with fever, myalgias, gastrointestinal symptoms, and mild mucocutaneous bleeding. Alternate-day steroid treatment failed to correct the periodic fluctuations in peripheral blood counts but ameliorated symptoms during cytopenia. The treatment of cyclic hematopoiesis is reviewed.
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- A Tefferi
- Division of Hematology and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905
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Cyclic neutropenia is a benign, hematologic disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of severe neutropenia at 21 day intervals. There are associated cyclical variations in other blood cells. Patients with this disease have malaise, stomatitis, cervical lymphadenopathy and fever during the recurrent neutropenic periods. The exact cause of cyclic neutropenia is unknown. About one third of human cases appear to be inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern. In the other cases, the disease appears to arise spontaneously with symptoms usually beginning in infancy or early childhood. In adult patients, the disease may be acquired and occur in association with a clonal proliferation of large granular lymphocytes. Clinical studies in man and investigations in grey collie dogs, which have a very similar disease, strongly suggest that cyclic neutropenia is due to an abnormality in the regulation of early hematopoietic precursor cells. Therapy for cyclic neutropenia involves local and symptomatic therapy for the recurrent mouth ulcers and pharyngitis, and antibiotics for episodes of sinusitis, pneumonia, peritonitis, or bacteremia. Therapy with glucocorticosteroids, androgens, and plasmapheresis has been efficacious in a few adult patients, but no therapy has been proven to alter the cycling of blood counts in children. Despite their repetitive illnesses, patients with cyclic neutropenia grow and develop normally. With the help of attentive physicians and dentists, their quality of life and life expectancy are good. Current research on hematopoietic growth factors offers promise of new approaches to therapy.
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- D C Dale
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle 98195
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Tyazhelova VG. Oscillations in blood cells as a consequence of suppressed bone marrow cell production. CELL AND TISSUE KINETICS 1987; 20:539-49. [PMID: 3502924 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2184.1987.tb01363.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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A hypothesis is proposed that the oscillations in blood cell numbers are the result of suppressed productivity of the bone marrow and its ability to satisfy both the demands of the erythroid and myeloid cell lines. The hypothesis is used as the basis for a mathematical model which describes the oscillations in all subpopulations of these cell lines. The relationship between the period and amplitude of the oscillations and the extent of suppression of the bone marrow productivity have been explored.
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Cyclic neutropenia developed in identical twin girls. The onset of neutropenia in these children occurred three years apart. Neutrophil cycling diminished, and symptoms decreased in the initially affected twin during a five-year follow-up. Some cases of cyclic neutropenia may be genetically determined; however, the onset and clinical manifestations may be modified by other internal and external factors. There may also be a prodromal period during which neutrophils cycle, but the patient is neither neutropenic nor symptomatic.
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Haus E, Lakatua DJ, Swoyer J, Sackett-Lundeen L. Chronobiology in hematology and immunology. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ANATOMY 1983; 168:467-517. [PMID: 6364772 DOI: 10.1002/aja.1001680406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The hematopoietic and the immune systems in all their components are characterized by a multifrequency time structure with prominent rhythms in cell proliferation and cell function in the circadian, infradian, and rhythms in cell proliferation and cell function in the circadian, infradian, and circannual frequency ranges. The circulating formed elements in the peripheral blood show highly reproducible circadian rhythms. The timing and the extent of these rhythms were established in a clinically healthy human population and are shown as chronograms, cosinor summaries and, for some high-amplitude rhythms, as time-qualified reference ranges (chronodesms). Not only the number but also the reactivity of circulating blood cells varies predictably as a function of time as shown for the circadian rhythm in responsiveness of human and murine lymphocytes in vitro to lectin mitogens (phytohemagglutinin and pokeweed mitogen). Some circadian rhythms of hematologic functions appear to be innate and are presumably genetically determined but are modulated and adjusted in their timing by environmental factors, so-called synchronizers. Phase alterations in the circadian rhythms of hematologic parameters of human subjects and of mice by manipulation of the activity-rest or light-dark schedule and/or of the time of food uptake are presented. Characteristically these functions do not change their timing immediately after a shift in synchronizer phase but adapt over several and in some instances over many transient cycles. The circadian rhythm of cell proliferation in the mammalian bone marrow and lymphoid system as shown in mice in vivo and in vitro may lend itself to timed treatment with cell-cycle-specific and nonspecific agents in an attempt to maximize the desired and to minimize the undesired treatment effects upon the marrow. Differences in response, and susceptibility of cells and tissues at different stages of their circadian and circaseptan (about 7-day) rhythms and presumably of cyclic variations in other frequencies are expected to lead to the development of a chronopharmacology of the hematopoietic and immune system. Infradian rhythms of several frequencies have been described for numerous hematologic and immune functions. Some of these, i.e., in the circaseptan frequency range, seem to be of importance for humoral and for cell mediated immune functions including allograft rejection. Infradian rhythms with periods of 19 to 22 days seem to occur in some hematologic functions and are very prominent in cyclic neutropenia and (with shorter periods) in its animal model, the grey collie syndrome.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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A patient with periodic neutropenia exhibited simultaneous monocytopenia, and epinephrine infusion revealed no monocytes in the marginating pool during neutropenia. Lymphocytes, eosinophils, and platelets also fluctuated periodically, but serial bone marrow studies and epinephrine infusion data indicate these fluctuations could have represented epiphenomena rather than a more global form of periodic hematopoiesis. Bone marrow descriptions of most cases of periodic neutropenia have indicated a "maturation arrest" at the promyelocyte or myelocyte stage prior to development of neutropenia; peripheral blood monocytes are usually normal or fluctuate out of phase with neutrophils. In this present case, "maturation arrest" occurred at the myeloblast stage, and neutrophils and monocytes cycled together. Morphologically normal eosinophilopoiesis with a mean eosinophil to erythroid ratio in the marrow of 0.27 +/- 0.10 (SD) persisted despite a sustained disappearance of promyelocytes.
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A previously healthy woman developed severe, periodic neutropenia after ingestion of phenylbutazone. Oscillations in the monocyte count and hemoglobin concentrations also occurred. The neutropenic episodes were associated with severe bacterial infections requiring hospitalization. Lithium induced a transient interruption in the neutropenia, but continued use was ineffective. Prednisone in a dosage of 100 mg daily successfully interrupted the neutrophil cycling and prevented infection. The patient has remained in remission on 10 mg of prednisone on alternate days.
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Scully C, MacFadyen E, Campbell A. Oral manifestations in cyclic neutropenia. THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF ORAL SURGERY 1982; 20:96-101. [PMID: 6954986 DOI: 10.1016/0007-117x(82)90015-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Birnie GG, Eadie AS, Hosie CJ, Lucie NP, Watkinson G. 111Indium-labelled white blood cells in the diagnosis of Felty's syndrome. J Clin Pathol 1982; 35:74-6. [PMID: 7061721 PMCID: PMC497451 DOI: 10.1136/jcp.35.1.74] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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The use of isotope scanning of the spleen in conjunction with 51Cr-labelled red blood cells has become an established technique in the evaluation of patients with hypersplenism. As far as we are aware the similar technique using labelled white blood cells to demonstrate splenic sequestration in a neutropenic patient has not been described. We report a case where this technique proved valuable in confirming the diagnosis and in predicting a favourable response to splenectomy.
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Patterson DF, Haskins ME, Jezyk PF. Models of human genetic disease in domestic animals. ADVANCES IN HUMAN GENETICS 1982; 12:263-339. [PMID: 6751045 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-8315-8_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Neutropenia can occur because of abnormalities of marrow stem cell development, poor release of polymorphonuclear leukocytes from the marrow reserve, or decreased survival of polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Some of the more important clinical entities are discussed.
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Nash H, Binns GF, Clarkson AR, Beare TH. Concomitant IgA nephropathy and cyclical neutropaenia. AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 1978; 8:184-8. [PMID: 277168 DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1978.tb04509.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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A case of concomitant cyclical neutropaenia and IgA nephropathy, a previously undescribed combination is reported. The patient has recurrent aphthous ulceration, and haematuria occurs with these episodes. The diagnosis of cyclical neutropaenia was based on the clinical features and serial peripheral blood studies, and a renal biopsy studied by light, electron and immunofluorescence microscopy in conjunction with the clinical features established the diagnosis of IgA nephropathy. Elevation of serum immunoglobulin, with a disproportionate elevation of IgA was found. The features of this case emphasise the importance of infection as an initiating event in the pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy, and they provide further evidence for the formation of poorly soluble immune complexes as a likely pathogenetic mechanism.
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A 70-year-old woman with cyclic neutropenia was treated with 16 mg of etiocholanolone and 25 mg of prednisolone intramuscularly every other day. During 14 weeks' treatment amplitude of cyclic fluctuations in neutrophil counts gradually decreased, but pretreatment cycles returned promptly after treatment was stopped. Prednisolone alone every other day (25 mg) reproduced this result, and by 23 weeks, neutrophil counts became stable at about 1500 per cubic millimeter. tcycling of monocytes, platelets and reticulocytes was also eliminated, as were symptoms that had accompanied neutropenic periods. In addition, bone-marrow neutrophil precursors and neutrophil marrow reserves were stabilized. The patient was subsequently maintained satisfactorily with oral prednisolone, 20 mg every other day. These studies demonstrate that the discontinuous myeloid maturation that occurs in cyclic neutropenia can be corrected with prednisolone every other day.
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Forrer P. [Kinetics and regulation of granulocytopoiesis (author's transl)]. KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT 1977; 55:247-58. [PMID: 139501 DOI: 10.1007/bf01484725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The present survey of the development of the granulocytes consists of two parts. In the first section the different stages of granulopoiesis are discussed with special regard to the stem cells. In the second one the regulation of the granulopoiesis and the different factors taking part in the homeostasis of the granulocytes are examined. Emphasis is placed upon the colony stimulating activity" (CSA) previously tested in different situations of stress in relationship to the granulopoietic system. In a separate chapter some marked clinical syndromes are discussed which accompany disorders of granulocyte-homeostasis. The pathogenesis of leukaemia is reviewed.
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Neutrophil production and distribution were studied in two families with autosomal dominantly inherited neutropenia to distinguish their illness from other neutropenic disorders. In addition to a reduced post-mitotic pool of bone-marrow neutrophils and neutrophil precursors, mitotic pool size was also reduced, ranging from 1.1 to 2.9 X 10(9) cells per kilogram (normal, 3.8 +/- 0.4 X 10(9) per kilogram). In vitro committed stem cells were reduced as well, ranging from 2 to 12/10(5) marrow cells (normal, 30 to 120/10(5)). In three patients neutrophil counts were observed to return to normal when they were adults. In one such subject studied, however, both the mitotic pool of neutrophil precursors and marrow committed stem cells were reduced. These abnormalities were in contrast to studies of a patient with chronic benign neutropenia of childhood and an infant with Kostmann-type congenital neutropenia, both of whom had increased marrow committed stem cells. These studies demonstrate several different mechanisms for production of neutropenia in these syndromes.
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Bodenstein H, Kalden JR, Friedrichs W, Kissling M, Troug P, von der Hardt H. [Colony-stimulating activity in urine and serum in a child with cyclic neutropenia]. BLUT 1976; 32:285-8. [PMID: 1083268 DOI: 10.1007/bf01005311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Colony stimulating activity (CSA) was estimated in daily urine samples and weekly plasma specimens of a 4-year-old girl with familial cyclic neutropenia. Nadirs of neutrophils and peaks of monocytes were found in regular cycles of 28 days. A close correlation was observed between nadirs of neutrophils and peaks of blood monocytes and colony stimulating activity in the urine. The role of colony stimulating factor as regulatory factor in granulopoiesis in cyclic neutropenia is discussed.
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Spiers AS, Roberts PD, Marsh GW, Parekh SJ, Franklin AJ, Galton DA, Szur ZL, Paul EA, Husband P, Wiltshaw E. Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: cyclical chemotherapy with three combinations of four drugs (COAP-POMP-CART regimen). BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 1975; 4:614-7. [PMID: 1060502 PMCID: PMC1675710 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.4.5997.614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Forty-two adults and children with previously untreated acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) were entered into a programme of chemotherapy in which three combinations, each of four drugs were administered in a predetermined cyclical rotation together with cranial irradiation and intrathecal injections of methotrexate. Forty-one patients (98%) entered remission and no patient developed neuroleukaemia. Relapse of ALL occurred in 10 patients, and three patients died during remission, while eight patients stopped treatment after two and a half years and have remained in remission for two to 26 months. Comparison of remission and survival experience in this mixed group of children and adults with the experience of children treated at Memphis and in the Medical Research Council's UKALL-I trial showed no significant differences. On the other hand, analysis by prognostic factors showed that neither age nor blast cell count at presentation had any adverse effect in patients treated in this study. No relapses occurred in nine patients with blast cell counts greater than 20 x 109/1 at presentation. This regimen is effective treatment for ALL and may be of special value in patients with poor prognoses. The regiment has not as yet proved superior for the treatment of children with ALL who do not have adverse prognostic features.
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Brandt L, Forssman O, Mitelman F, Odeberg H, Olofsson T, Olsson I, Svensson B. Cell production and cell function in human cyclic neutropenia. SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY 1975; 15:228-40. [PMID: 173016 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0609.1975.tb01078.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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In vitro studies have been done on haematopoietic cells from a patient with cyclic neutropenia characterized by severe depression of blood neutrophil levels every 21 days. Serial blood counts reveal periodic fluctuations in neutrophils, monocytes and reticulocytes. Agar culture of marrow cells shows normal concentration of colony forming cells. The percentage of colony forming cells in S phase is highly increased during profound neutropenia and normal during the recovery phase relating the granulocyte production to the peripheral neutrophil level. Studies of ingestion rate, bactericidal activity, lactate production and glucose oxidation during phagocytosis in isolated granulocytes show normal results. Also the ingestion rate in isolated monocytes is normal. Serial karyotype analyses of marrow cells during the neutrophil cycle display a normal pattern. Serum myeloperoxidase levels vary inversely with the peripheral neutrophil count indicating increased granulopoietic activity during profound neutropenia, which might be associated with non effective granulopoiesis during profound neutropenia, leading to a lack of granulocyte reserves in the marrow.
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Moore MA, Spitzer G, Metcalf D, Penington DG. Monocyte production of colony stimulating factor in familial cyclic neutropenia. Br J Haematol 1974; 27:47-55. [PMID: 4859419 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.1974.tb06773.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Jennings GH, Levi AJ, Reeve J. A case of chronic granulocytopenia associated with vasculitis and amyloidosis. J Clin Pathol 1973; 26:592-5. [PMID: 4733863 PMCID: PMC477830 DOI: 10.1136/jcp.26.8.592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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A patient is described with chronic neutropenia who was followed for 22 years. She had varying patterns of neutropenia, sometimes cyclical, sometimes almost agranulocytic; at times the counts were normal. The course was complicated by a vasculitis and finally by large vessel thrombosis; extensive amyloid was found in small vessels at necropsy.
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Reeve J. An analogue model of granulopoiesis for the analysis of isotopic and other data obtained in the non-steady state. Br J Haematol 1973; 25:15-32. [PMID: 4275918 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.1973.tb01712.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Reimann HA. Haemocytic periodicity and periodic disorders: periodic neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, lymphocytosis and anaemia. Postgrad Med J 1971; 47:504-10. [PMID: 4397784 PMCID: PMC2467202 DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.47.549.504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Evidence has accumulated of rhythmic numerical oscillation of each of the blood cells either independently or in combinations. The cyclic changes originate in the marrow of some normal persons and animals without causing illness, and can be induced experimentally. In more than 100 reported instances, periodic oscillations of various cells were accompanied by respective episodes of the disorders named in the title. The disorders may be transitory but usually recur throughout life and occasionally are fatal. All resist therapy. Features in common suggest an interrelationship of the haemal disorders and other disparate heritable periodic diseases. Theoretically, the rhythms are regulated by ubiquitous, inherent, intracellular bioclocks controlled hypothalamically or neurohumorally in relation to a feedback mechanism. Reactions to long cycles are of greater clinical importance than disturbances arising from the circadian rhythm.
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