TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Sternberg Reed' giant cells of Hodgkin's disease
T2 - Cultivation in vitro, heterotransplantation, and characterization as neoplastic macrophages
AU - Kaplan, H. S.
AU - Gartner, S.
PY - 1977
Y1 - 1977
N2 - Cells from the involved spleens of 25 patients with Hodgkin's disease were grown in long-term culture and compared with normal spleen macrophage cultures from control cases. The Hodgkin's spleen cell culture contained mono-, bi-, and multinucleate giant cells, many closely resembling Sternberg-Reed cells, which were adherent, phagocytically active and neoplastic by the dual criteria of aneuplody and heterotransplantability. Lysozyme secretion was consistently observed in all Hodgkin's cultures tested. The giant cells possessed both Fc and complement (C3b) receptors, and lacked lymphocyte markers such as C3d receptors, surface IgM, and the capacity to form E-rosettes. Binucleate and multinucleate cells, as well as mononuclears, were capable of active DNA synthesis, and binuclear mitotic figures were observed. It is concluded that these cells are the in vitro descendants of the Sternberg-Reed and Hodgkin neoplastic cell population, and that they are derived from macrophages or closely related cells of the mononuclear phagocyte system. Although these giant cells are as a rule referred to as Sternberg-Reed cells, it is now recognized that Tuckwell and others (historical review by Rather, 1972) described them as long as 30 yr before Sternberg (1898) and Reed (1902).
AB - Cells from the involved spleens of 25 patients with Hodgkin's disease were grown in long-term culture and compared with normal spleen macrophage cultures from control cases. The Hodgkin's spleen cell culture contained mono-, bi-, and multinucleate giant cells, many closely resembling Sternberg-Reed cells, which were adherent, phagocytically active and neoplastic by the dual criteria of aneuplody and heterotransplantability. Lysozyme secretion was consistently observed in all Hodgkin's cultures tested. The giant cells possessed both Fc and complement (C3b) receptors, and lacked lymphocyte markers such as C3d receptors, surface IgM, and the capacity to form E-rosettes. Binucleate and multinucleate cells, as well as mononuclears, were capable of active DNA synthesis, and binuclear mitotic figures were observed. It is concluded that these cells are the in vitro descendants of the Sternberg-Reed and Hodgkin neoplastic cell population, and that they are derived from macrophages or closely related cells of the mononuclear phagocyte system. Although these giant cells are as a rule referred to as Sternberg-Reed cells, it is now recognized that Tuckwell and others (historical review by Rather, 1972) described them as long as 30 yr before Sternberg (1898) and Reed (1902).
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M3 - Article
C2 - 844918
AN - SCOPUS:0017343463
SN - 0020-7136
VL - 19
SP - 511
EP - 525
JO - International Journal of Cancer
JF - International Journal of Cancer
IS - 4
ER -