PMID- 11855785 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20030725 LR - 20191105 IS - 0017-6559 (Print) IS - 0017-6559 (Linking) VI - 31 IP - 3 DP - 2001 TI - Analysis of IL-18 bioactivity and IL-18 mRNA in three patients with adult T-cell leukaemia, acute mixed lineage leukaemia, and acute lymphocytic leukaemia accompanied with high serum IL-18 levels. PG - 231-5 AB - Interleukin-18 (IL-18) bioactivity in sera and IL-18 mRNA expression in leukaemia cells of three patients with adult T-cell leukaemia (ATL), acute mixed lineage leukaemia (AMLL) and acute lymphocytic leukaemia (ALL) accompanied with high serum IL-18 levels have been analysed. There was little serum IL-18 bioactivity in the three patients with ATL, AMLL and ALL, while IL-18 mRNA expression was detected in leukaemia cells of all three patients. FAU - Takubo, T AU - Takubo T AD - Clinical Hematology and Clinical Diagnostics, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan. m3542254@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp FAU - Kumura, T AU - Kumura T FAU - Kanashima, H AU - Kanashima H FAU - Nakao, T AU - Nakao T FAU - Nakamae, H AU - Nakamae H FAU - Aoyama, Y AU - Aoyama Y FAU - Yamamura, R AU - Yamamura R FAU - Ohta, T AU - Ohta T FAU - Koh, K R AU - Koh KR FAU - Ohta, K AU - Ohta K FAU - Yamane, T AU - Yamane T FAU - Hino, M AU - Hino M FAU - Kamitani, T AU - Kamitani T FAU - Tatsumi, N AU - Tatsumi N LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - Netherlands TA - Haematologia (Budap) JT - Haematologia JID - 0130266 RN - 0 (Interleukin-18) RN - 0 (RNA, Messenger) RN - 82115-62-6 (Interferon-gamma) SB - IM MH - Acute Disease MH - Aged MH - Case-Control Studies MH - Dose-Response Relationship, Drug MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis/drug effects MH - Interleukin-18/blood/genetics/*physiology MH - Leukemia/*blood/metabolism MH - Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell/blood/metabolism MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/blood/metabolism MH - RNA, Messenger/*metabolism MH - Tumor Cells, Cultured/drug effects EDAT- 2002/02/22 10:00 MHDA- 2003/07/26 05:00 CRDT- 2002/02/22 10:00 PHST- 2002/02/22 10:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2003/07/26 05:00 [medline] PHST- 2002/02/22 10:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1163/15685590152763773 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Haematologia (Budap). 2001;31(3):231-5. doi: 10.1163/15685590152763773.