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Detection of sensitized human blood lymphocytes by agglutination with basic peptides: a possible test for malignant disease.

A simple rapid micro-agglutination test for detecting sensitized lymphocytes from human peripheral blood is described: the poly-L-lysine (PLL) 3400 agglutination test of lymphocytes (PAL test). The incubation of lymphocytes from 30 cancer patients, 30 patients with non-malignant disease and 40 healt...

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Autores principales: Bauer, H. W., Ax, W.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 1977
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2025553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/597471
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Sumario:A simple rapid micro-agglutination test for detecting sensitized lymphocytes from human peripheral blood is described: the poly-L-lysine (PLL) 3400 agglutination test of lymphocytes (PAL test). The incubation of lymphocytes from 30 cancer patients, 30 patients with non-malignant disease and 40 healthy controls with PLL (mol. wt 3400) is evaluated. The test was positive in 83 percent of malignant and 20 percent of non-malignant cases. All healthy controls were negative. Other peptides tested showed no significant difference in reaction between malignant and non-malignant diseases. The mechanism of detection of sensitized lymphocytes from patients with malignant disease through agglutination induced by PLL 3400 is discussed. IMAGES: