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. 1980 Oct;66(4):638–645. doi: 10.1172/JCI109899

Study of the factors that cause specific transformation in cultures of lymphocytes from patients with quinine- and quinidine-induced immune thrombocytopenia.

P K Hosseinzadeh, B G Firkin, S L Pfueller
PMCID: PMC371636  PMID: 6999032

Abstract

Quinine- or quinidine-induced thrombocytopenic purpura is caused by synthesis of an immunoglobulin (Ig)G antibody, which caused platelet damage in the presence of the offending drug. The nature of the antigenic stimulus has been examined by measuring incorporation of [3H]thymidine into DNA during lymphocyte transformation to blast cells in the presence of the drug. Although patients' lymphocytes responded normally to the nonspecific mitogen, phytohemagglutinin P, they did not respond to either drug or platelets alone. However, significant transformation occurred when patients' lymphocytes were cultured for 7 d with homologous or autologous platelets in the presence of therapeutic concentrations of the drugs (0.39-39 microM). Platelet membranes were more active than intact platelets on the basis of protein content, whereas platelets from a patient with Bernard-Soulier syndrome were inactive. Washed platelets pretreated with the drugs were inactive when cultured with lymphocytes in the absence of the drugs, whereas platelets pretreated similarly in plasma caused transformation. Control lymphocytes from 20 normal patients and 6 patients with nondrug-induced thrombocytopenia were not transformed by drugs and platelets in the presence of normal serum or serum containing drug-dependent antibody, showing that the observed response was specific for presensitized lymphocytes. Thus lymphocytes of patients with drug-induced thrombocytopenia are transformed by an antigen that forms after interaction of plasma, specific platelet membrane components and the drug.

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