Mouse erythroblast formation is inhibited by anemia-inducing substance from the plasma of a patient with a malignant neoplasm
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- Published online on: September 1, 2001 https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.8.3.257
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Abstract
An anemia-inducing substance (AIS) was found as a protein, with a molecular weight of 50,000 on SDS electrophoresis gel, that decreased the osmotic resistance of erythrocytes. In this study, the plasma fraction containing AIS is shown to inhibit mouse erythroblast formation in vitro. The addition of the plasma fraction from a patient with an advanced malignant neoplasm to a liquid culture of mouse bone marrow cells with erythropoietin results in low numbers of erythroblast formation and low cellular yields of α- and β-globin mRNAs. These inhibitions were not observed after immunoadsorption of the plasma fraction with an antiserum against AIS.
