@article{majumder2014hla,
  title = {HLA Analysis of CD15+ Granulocytes of Leukemic Patients and Assessment of its Implication in Leukemia Immunotherapy},
  author = {Durjoy Majumder and Subrata Banerjee and Debasis Bandyopadhyay and Sarmila Chandra},
  year = 2014,
  url = {https://ibimapublishing.com/articles/IMMU/2014/982078/},
  journal = {Research in Immunology: An International Journal},
  volume = 2014 (2014),
  pages = 12,
  doi = 10.5171/2014.982078,
  abstract = {It is of common knowledge that most leukemic patients succumb to infectious complications beside dysfunction in proliferation/differentiation of hematopoietic cells. Recently, it has been shown by several groups that there is a locus specific HLA class I downregulation in the leukemic cells. However, the HLA status of the phenotypically/morphologically normal granulocytes which can cope up with the infectious complications are not known. Therefore it may be worthwhile to study the HLA status in these cell types. We, therefore, investigated the status of HLA-ABC and HLA-DR in the CD15+ granulocytes and observed a higher expression of HLA-DR in several leukemic samples in comparison to normal volunteers (NV). Our data also suggest that only CD15+ granulocytes of myeloid leukemia, a clonal stem cell disorder, have a tendency of decreased HLA class Ia antigen expression. Moreover CD15+ granulocytes of NV showed an enhanced HLA-DR expression in presence of leukemic cells. Interestingly, CD15+ granulocytes collected from normal volunteers were observed to have phagocytic oxidative burst activity towards HLA class Ia downregulated primary leukemic cells. We therefore suggest that neutrophil transplantation may be used for the treatment of leukemia.},
  keywords = {HLA, polymorphonuclear neutrophil, CIITA, innate immunity},
  note = Article ID: 982078
}