RE: CD4 positive but CD3 and CD14 and CD16 and TCRalpha/beta and TCRgamma/delta negative cells

From: Olindo Assis Martins Filho (oamfilho@netra.cpqrr.fiocruz.br)
Date: Wed Jan 13 1999 - 08:17:25 EST


Dear Marck,


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From: 	Marc Jacobsen[SMTP:jacobsen@mailer.uni-marburg.de]
Sent: 	Segunda-feira, 11 de Janeiro de 1999 15:46
To: cyto-inbox
Subject: 	CD4 positive but CD3 and CD14 and CD16 and TCRalpha/beta and TCRgamma/delta negative cells


Dear colleagues,

has anyone experience with such a cell type? We found it in the
cerebrospinal fluid of a patient suffering herpes enzephalitis. The cells
are up to 10-times bigger than T cells and express CD4 on their surface.
Maybe it is a kind of tumor cell?

Thanks in You should consider that monocytes macrophages are also positive for
CD4. They can loose CD14 in some activation process. Did you test any
other monocytes/macrophages marker, as for example CD11C and CD15?
advance

Marc
Marc Jacobsen
MZ Nervenheilkunde - Neurologische Klinik mit Poliklinik
Rudolf-Bultmann-Str.8, 35039 Marburg, Germany,
Fax +49 6421 28 7055, Phone +49 6421 28 2678



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