Ma Jie, Liu Ya-Jie, Zhang Qiu-Tang, Yu Qing-Feng, Zhang Zhan-Fang, Zhang Meng-Ying, Wang Chong, Gan Si-Lin, Chen Sheng-Mei, Cao Wei-Jie, Xie Xin-Sheng, Yan-Fang Liu, Liu Lin-Xiang, Wan Ding-Ming, Wang Fang, Sun Ling, Sun Hui
Department of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, Henan Province, China. E-mail:
Department of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, Henan Province, China.
Zhongguo Shi Yan Xue Ye Xue Za Zhi. 2016 Oct;24(5):1312-1318. doi: 10.7534/j.issn.1009-2137.2016.05.005.
To investigate the expression of N-cadherin in bone marrow leukemic cells derived from acute leukemia patients and its clinical significances.
A total of 113 patients with acute leukemia were enrolled in this study. Flow cytometry was employed to detect the expression of N-Cadherin in bone marrow leukemic cells from acute leukemia patients and the relationships between the N-cadherin expression and the clinical characteristics of patients with acute leukemia were analyzed.
The expression of N-Cadherin in bone marrow leukemic cells deriveted from patients with acute leukemia was variable with 0%-99.7%. For adult AML patients, the positive rate of CD34 in N-cadherin group was significantly higher than that in N-cadherin group(67.39% vs 33.33%)(P=0.013), while the differences of total CR rate and rate of CR after 1 cycle of induction treatment were not significant between these 2 groups(P>0.05). As to ALL patients, N-cadherin group had significant lower WBC count (21.31±7.07 vs 51.10±23.69)(P=0.008) and lower percentage of peripheral blood blast (43.22±5.75% vs 66.45±5.65%)(P=0.015). The CR rate after 1 cycle of induction treatment and rate of overall CR were lower and the relapse rate was higher in N-cadherin ALL group than those in N-cadherin ALL group, but the differences were not significant (P>0.05). For childhood ALL, the positive rate of CD33 in N-cadherin group was significantly higher than that in N-cadherin group(47.62% vs 0%)(P=0.012). The relapse rate was higher in N-cadherin group than that in N-cadherin group (30.00% vs 0%)(P=0.115). The median survival time, 3-year overall OS rate and 3-year relapse-free survival rate in N-cadherin groups of adult AML, non-M3 AML, ALL and chidhood ALL paients were superior to N-cadherin groups, but the differences were not significant.
The expression of N-cadherin in bone marrow leukemic cells relates to some clinical features of patients with acute leukemia and to some extent has inferior effect on survival of patients with acute leukemia.
