Dependence of cytokine-induced human myelogenous leukemic cell differentiation on the type of serum in the medium
Sakagami, H.; Ikeda, M.; Fukushima, Y.; Konno, K.
Anticancer Research 10(2a): 385-390
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0250-7005 PMID: 2111976 Document Number: 361938
Human myelogenous leukemic cell lines (ML-1, U-937, THP-1) were induced to differentiate by treatment with various cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor, interferon-gamma and interleukin-6. However, the extent of cell maturation depended upon the types and concentrations of sera included in the culture medium. The stimulating activity of human sera on the cytokine-induced differentiation significantly exceeded that of various lots of calf serum, horse serum, fetal calf serum and fetal bovine serum, and its stimulating effects were reproducibly observed irrespective of age and sex of normal volunteers. On Sephadex G-200 gel filtration chromatography, the stimulatory substance(s) present in human sera were separated from the inhibitory substance(s) eluted near the void volume.