Liu Bo, Cui Wei, Han Bing, Wang Xuan, Lin Jie, Zhao Yong-Qiang
Department of Hematology, PUMC Hospital, CAMS and PUMC, Beijing 100730, China.
Zhongguo Yi Xue Ke Xue Yuan Xue Bao. 2009 Oct;31(5):547-50.
To measure the telomere length in patients with bone marrow failure syndrome (BMF) using fluorescence in situ hybridization and flow cytometry (Flow-FISH).
Blood samples were collected from 8 patients with BMF. Telomere lengths of mononuclear cells from 8 BMF patients and granulocytes from 3 of these 8 BMF patients (all these 3 patients were suffered from aplastic anemia) were measured using Flow-FISH, and the results were compared with those of normal controls. Telomere lengths were measured by Southern blot in 3 patients, and the results were compared with those obtained from Flow-FISH.
Among these 8 BMF patients, 5 have decreased telomere length in their mononuclear cells. However, different white cell subgroups, specifically mononucleated cells and granulocytes, have different degree of telomere shortening. In 3 BMF patients who underwent both Flow-FISH and Southern blot, 2 patients had consistent measurement results.
Flow-FISH can be used for the measurement of telomere length in Chinese patients with BMF.
采用荧光原位杂交和流式细胞术(Flow-FISH)检测骨髓衰竭综合征(BMF)患者的端粒长度。
采集8例BMF患者的血样。使用Flow-FISH检测8例BMF患者单个核细胞以及其中3例(这3例均为再生障碍性贫血患者)粒细胞的端粒长度,并将结果与正常对照进行比较。对3例患者采用Southern印迹法测量端粒长度,并将结果与Flow-FISH获得的结果进行比较。
在这8例BMF患者中,5例患者的单个核细胞端粒长度缩短。然而,不同的白细胞亚群,特别是单个核细胞和粒细胞,端粒缩短程度不同。在3例同时接受Flow-FISH和Southern印迹法检测的BMF患者中,2例患者的测量结果一致。
Flow-FISH可用于检测中国BMF患者的端粒长度。