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. 2013 Nov 6;8(11):e79939. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079939

Table 1. Engraftment capacity of MM-patient-derived BM cells vs. healthy donor and mock controls in NSG.

# of mice with positive Fluorescence-based in vivo imaging signal
Flow cytometry1
Patient # MM type # of mice HLA ABC CD45 CD138 HLA ABC CD45 CD138 CD38
disease stage with disease symptoms d38 d46 d56 d56 d56 d56 d56
#1 IgGκ MM IIIA, II SR 4 / 4 4 / 4 4 / 4 4 / 4 + + + +
#2 IgGλ MM IIIA, II SR 8 / 11 4 / 4 4 / 4 4 / 4 + + + -
#3 κ-LC MM IIIA, I HR 1 / 1 n.d. n.d. n.d. + n.d. - n.d.
#4 IgGκ MM IIIA, III SR 1 / 1 n.d. n.d. n.d. + n.d. - n.d.
#52 IgMκ PCL IIIA, III HR 6 / 6 4 / 4 4 / 4 4 / 4 + + + -
#6 IgGκ MM IIIA, II SR 5 / 5 5 / 5 5 / 5 1 / 5 - + + -
#7 IgAκ MM II, I HR 5 / 5 5 / 5 5 / 5 0 / 5 + + + -
#8 IgGκ MM III, II SR 3 / 5 n.d. 3 / 3 2 / 3 + + + +
#9 κ -LC MM IIIA, I SR 3 / 5 3 / 3 2 / 2 1 / 2 - + + -
#10 IgGλ MM IIIA, III SR 3 / 5 5 / 5 5 / 5 3 / 5 + + + -
#11 IgGκ MM IIIA, III 10/10 n.d. n.d. 10/10³ +³ +³ +³ -³
Control 1 Healthy donor 0 / 7 4 / 7 3 / 7 0 / 7 (+) (+) - -
Control 2 Mock-injection 0 / 8 0 / 3 0 / 3 0 / 3 - - - -

Abbreviations:

MM = Multiple Myeloma , HLA-A,B,C = human leucocyte antigen A, B and C; CD45 = Protein tyrosine phosphatase, receptor type, C; CD138 = Syndecan-1;CD38 = ADP-ribosyl cyclase;PCL = Plasma cell leukemia; n.d.= not determined

staging: Durie & Salmon and International staging systemSR=standard-risk via FISH analysis defined as no abnormalities or hyperdiploidy; HR=high-risk: +1q21, del(17p13), immunoglobulin heavy chain gene (IGH) translocation incorporating t(4;14 , t(14;16) and t(14;20).

1 Engraftment was determined via flow cytometry analysis with human engraftment defined as equal or larger as 0.08% positivity = +

BM- PB- and spleen-samples were obtained on d56, after primary intratibial injection

2 Patient 5 had a plasma cell leukemia, where peripheral blood cells were injected intratibially

3 IVI was performed weekly until day 38, flow cytometry was performed on day 38.