W Göhde's research while affiliated with Universitätsklinikum Münster and other places

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A new screening method was developed for the detection and identification of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from sterile sites or mixed flora samples (inguinal or nose swabs). After rapid treatment of samples, the method consists of two steps, template DNA preparation by a simple and rapid boiling procedure and a multiplex real...
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Identification of clones in primary tumors responsible for proliferation, invasion, and metastasis was carried out. Four different aneuploid established cell lines derived from a ductal infiltrating mammary rat tumor induced by 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene were studied for proliferative and growth features in vitro and for tumorigenic and metasta...
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In order to isolate, characterize, and establish culture cell lines with different diagnostic and prognostic significance, derived from multiclonal neoplasms, a ductal infiltrating mammary tumor was induced in rats by 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene. Clones with different DNA/protein content, being the DI of 1.16, 1.30, and 1.60, respectively, were...
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The quantification of the cellular transport capacity for the DNA staining dye Hoechst 33342 out of the cell is a widely accepted marker for recognition of stem cells. Cells with such an increased level of dye efflux (the so-called side population) can be detected on a flow cytometer equipped with a UV laser. Active transport mechanisms of this typ...
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It was recently shown, that the tetrahedral tip can be used as a probe for Scanning Near- Field Optical Microscopy (SNOM) at a lateral resolution of 30 nm. The optical signal as obtained in an Inverse Photon Scanning Tunneling Microscope configuration was used to control the distance between tip and object during the scan. The optical signal is how...
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Proviral DNAs are being measured increasingly as a marker of the efficacy of highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) and is accepted for the early diagnosis of perinatal HIV-1 infections. This requires a standardized test which enables the detection of a wide range of subtypes worldwide including O, N and circulating recombinant forms (CRFs)....
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Das Sortieren von Zellen ist wichtig für die Klonierung von Zellen oder zur Anreicherung von seltenen Zellpopulationen. Ein neuer Zellsorter bietet eine hohe Leistung und Nutzerfreundlichkeit. Sorting of cells is important for biomedical applications including cellular cloning steps or the isolation of rare variants. A new cell sorter combines a h...
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Zusammenfassung Ein neues Laborsystem für die hochauflösende Gelanalyse ermöglicht die kompakte Elektrophorese und Live-Imaging in einem. Zusammen mit neuen Fluorochromen zeigt das System eine sehr hohe Sensitivität. Dies ist gerade in der Differenzialdiagnostik mittels Multiplex-PCR von großer Bedeutung.
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Flow fluorometry and Coulter type sizing analysis of sperm have been applied separately in order to improve human semen analysis. Different methods of sample preparation were evaluated and a protocol involving prestaining pepsin treatment of sperm samples is proposed for fluorometric analysis. The data obtained with fluorometry and sizing analysis...
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Most commercially available assays for diagnosis of HIV infection have shown shortcomings in the detection and quantification of rare genotypes of the virus. Most of the assays do not detect subtype O (outlier) and/or N (nonmajor, nonoutlier) or new circulating recombinant forms (CRFs), which are becoming more important in sub-Saharan Africa. Furth...
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Zusammenfassung Obwohl die Pathogenese der HIV-Infektion unabhängig vom Alter ist, müssen besondere Umstände für die Behandlung von Neugeborenen, Kindern und Heranwachsenden berücksichtigt werden. Neben einer vorsichtigeren Medikation sollte der Verlauf der Krankheit durch die wiederholte Messung der CD4-Zellen relativ zu den Lymphozyten (CD4%) ver...
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Since preanalytic lysing of erythrocytes remains critical in flow cytometry, we investigated the influence of four lysing procedures on the quantification of leukocyte and CD34+ cells in hematopoietic cell transplants (HCTs). Samples were derived from stem cell-enriched mobilized whole blood collected by apheresis (unselected) and immunologically p...
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An escalation in standard irradiation dose ensuring improved local tumor control is estimated, but this strategy would require the exclusion of the most sensitive individuals from treatment. Therefore, fast and reliable assays for prediction of the individual radiosensitivity are urgently required. Seven parameters in lymphocytes of 40 patients wit...
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Very thin material layers (<100 microm) partially absorb ionizing radiation of low energy. When irradiating monolayer cell cultures from above, attention must be paid to absorption by the medium. Frequently, the volume of the nutrient medium is variable, and this leads to differences in the radiation doses delivered to the cells. In the present wor...
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The determination of CD4 cells is of crucial clinical importance for patients with AIDS. However, the high costs involved represent limitations for CD4 cell counting in developing countries. In order to provide an affordable technique, we introduced a simplified volumetric counting (SVC) technique without sample manipulations and investigated it in...
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The analysis of genetic biomarkers has become an important tool in clinical diagnostics. This includes the identification of disease-related genetic alterations, the detection of pathogenic infective germs on DNA or RNA level and the quantification of the expression of marker genes indicating an altered physiological status. It has been previously...
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The shape of the dose-effect curve for neutrons, i.e. the question as to whether the curve is linear or supralinear in the low-dose region, is still not clear. Therefore, the mutagenic effect of very low doses of low-energy neutrons was determined. Human-hamster hybrid A(L) cells contain human chromosome 11, which expresses the membrane protein CD5...
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Nano and microspheres are important tools in cytometry. They have been used in first to optimize fluorescent signals detected by flow cytometry and to evaluate phagocytosis. Some antigens were also detected by using nanospheres covalently coupled to antibodies. Specifically dedicated microspheres are now widely used for antigenic quantitation by fl...
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Nano and microspheres are important tools in cytometry. They have been used in first to optimize fluorescent signals detected by flow cytometry and to evaluate phagocytosis. Some antigens were also detected by using nanospheres covalently coupled to antibodies. Specifically dedicated microspheres are now widely used for antigenic quantitation by fl...
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All current-flow cytometric techniques use erythrocyte-lysing procedures before leukocyte analysis. We investigated the impact of four lysing procedures with different flow cytometric techniques on the loss of leukocytes and hematopoietic progenitor cells in blood samples. A total of 280 determinations out of 10 samples were measured by two flow cy...
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Background: Commonly used flow-cytometric methods for immunophenotyping are based on erythrocyte lysing reagents. It is known from the literature that these reagents result in a significant loss of leucocytes caused by membrane destruction. Although the dual-platform method should compensate this phenomenon, the subset-specific individual differenc...
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Epidemiologic data revealed increased brain tumor incidence in workers exposed to magnetic fields (MFs), raising concerns about the possible link between MF exposure and cancer. However, MFs seem to be neither mutagenic nor tumorigenic. The mechanism of their tumorigenic effect has not been elucidated. To evaluate the interference of MFs with physi...
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Mutation induction in the HPRT gene of human fibroblasts after irradiation with mammography-like 29 kVp or 200 kVp x-rays shows radiohypersensitivity for doses smaller than approximately 0.5 Gy. Similarly, mutation induction in the CD 59 gene on human chromosome 11 in A(L) cells shows radiohypersensitivity for doses smaller than approximately 0.5 G...
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Competitive PCR of reverse transcribed mRNA sequences is used to quantify transcripts, but the usual approaches are labor-intensive and time-consuming. We describe the non-gel-based quantification of competitive reverse transcription (RT)-PCR products with use of microparticles and flow cytometry. PCR products of a target sequence and an internal c...
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To measure the mutagenic effectiveness of low-filtered 30 kVp X-rays, mammography X-rays and conventional (200 kVp) X-rays in mammalian cells. Two different cell lines and mutation assays were used. Exponentially growing SV40-transformed human fibroblasts were exposed to graded doses of mammography (29 kVp, tungsten anode, 50 microm Rh filter) or c...
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Accurate determination of residual leucocytes [white blood cells (WBC)] in blood components is of high clinical importance. To date, several labour-intensive, time-consuming or expensive techniques have been used for this purpose. A method for the determination of residual WBC is described using a novel low-cost flow-cytometric cell counter and ana...
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Using repetitive elements as probes, genomic DNA fingerprints of four randomly selected yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) clones (two human and two mouse-derived YAC) were analyzed to determine the mutation level following X-ray exposure. Because the repetitive probes were derived from the mammalian host DNA, most of the fingerprint bands originate...
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Background: Using a single-platform protocol to count absolute CD34+ hematopoietic precursor cell (HPC) levels with different reference microbeads, we recorded occasionally artifactually high CD34+ HPC counts in some leukapheresis bags, whereas dual-platform calculations were always consistent. Abnormal countings were observed only when phosphate-...
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Determination of the genotoxic effects of ionizing radiation, especially at low-doses, is of great importance for risk assessment, e.g. in radiological diagnostics. The human-hamster hybrid A(L) cell line has been shown previously to be a well-suited in vitro model for the study of mutations induced by various mutagens. The A(L) cells contain a sta...
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The long-term effects of ionizing radiation on male gonads may be the result of damage to spermatogonial stem cells. Doses of 10 cGy to 15 Gy (60)Co gamma rays or 10 cGy to 7 Gy 14 MeV neutrons were given to NMRI mice as single or split doses separated by a 24-h interval. The ratios of haploid spermatids/2c cells and the coefficients of variation o...
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Purpose: Accurate determination of residual leukocytes (WBC) in blood components is of high importance to assure quality control processes. Since the concentrations of WBC in blood components are below the detectable range of automated cell counters, labor-intensive, time-consuming or expensive techniques have to be used for this purpose. Methods:...
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Purpose: Former studies demonstrated the influence of erythrocyte lysing procedures on flow cytometric quantitation of stem cells. In order to investigate the origin and grade of this effect, two basically different flow cytometric principles were used. Methods: CD45+ and CD34+ cells from 20 blood and apheresis samples were determined by a conventi...
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Here, we demonstrate the flow cytometric concept of 'primary CD4 gating' utilizing three different CD4 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) conjugated with five different fluorochromes. CD4(+) lymphocytes were defined by an autogate in a single histogram of CD4 fluorescence intensity (FI) (y-axis) vs. side light scatter (x-axis). A wide range of absolute c...
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Reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) is a powerful tool in clinical diagnostics for analyzing even small amounts of RNA, but sensitive assays for quantifying the amplification products are time-consuming or expensive. Here we describe a novel flow cytometry-based assay for rapid and sensitive determination of relative amounts of RT-PCR products. For...
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The incidence of skin cancer is increasing in epidemic proportion. Although solar UV radiation is known to be the major risk factor, much information is lacking about the molecular mechanisms leading to skin cancer. To gain a deeper insight into these mechanisms, we have examined cells of a human keratinocyte cell line (HaCat) after exposure to 0.1...
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The relative biological effectiveness of 14 MeV neutrons in the low-dose range < or =1 Gy has been determined in differentiating and differentiated spermatogonia. Male NMRI mice were exposed to single doses of 2 cGy to 3 Gy of (60)Co gamma rays or neutrons. The ratios of testicular S-phase cells, 4c primary spermatocytes, and elongated spermatids w...
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The aim of this study was the evaluation of DNA flow cytometry for the analysis of male infertility. 171 ejaculates from 155 patients with fertility problems were analysed by flow cytometry and by conventional microscopical procedures. Using flow cytometry, it was possible to determine the relative proportions of the various cell populations: matur...
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Due to the weakness of the fluorescence signal from a single fluorophore, a scanning near-field optical microscope for single molecule spectroscopy requires a very efficient setup for the collection and detection of emitted photons. We have developed a home-built microscope for operation in a l-He cryostat which uses a solid parabolic mirror in ord...
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Intestinal metaplasia identifies Barrett's esophagus (BE) and is associated with an increased risk for esophageal adenocarcinoma. Dysplasia occurs as an intermediate step. However, progression from metaplasia to neoplasia without the demonstration of dysplasia has been described. The role of dual-parameter flow cytometry (FC) as a predictor of neop...
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The influence of ambient oxygen on blinking (on–off transitions) of individual terrylenediimide (TDI) molecules is investigated by confocal microscopy. The authors show that the “on-times”—during which the fluorescence intensity is above a certain threshold—are shortened significantly in ambient air compared to in nitrogen. The “off-times” are virt...
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Contact imaging by energy transfer was the first application of the optical near-field for imaging beyond the diffraction limit. It is a method by which surface nanostructures can be copied onto a monomolecular layer of a dye. Near field microscopy using tapered metal coated fibers with an aperture at their tip as a submicron source of light can be...
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Single molecule detection has been extended into life sciences by use of strong fluorescent labels. GFP as a self fluorescent biomolecule has attracted great interest. Here, single molecules of the GFP-mutant Glu222Gln immobilized in PVA are detected by confocal microscopy. In this mutant the deprotonated form of the chromophore is stabilized which...
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The photophysical properties of terrylenediimide (TDI) make this novel fluorophore an ideal candidate for single-molecule studies in solid matrices using various optical techniques. By employing frequency selective high-resolution laser spectroscopy at liquid helium temperatures, we could isolate the fluorescence excitation lines of single TDI mole...
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Semiconductor nanocrystallites (NCs) with a radius in the range of the bulk excition radius exhibit a strong quantum size effect. We investigated CdS-NCs, that were spin coated on a glass cover slip, with a low temperature confocal microscope, At low coverage we could image the fluorescence light from single NCs. The typical emission spectra of sin...
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A scanning near-field optical microscope equipped with an Al-coated glass fiber tip for operation in a He cryostat is described. The instrument is designed for fluorescence detection of nanoscopic particles (single dye molecules and nanocrystallites), and allows optical imaging and spectroscopy of surfaces or thin objects with subwavelength spatial...
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By use of low-temperature (20 K) confocal microscopy, fluorescence spectra of isolated single CdS nanocrystals have been recorded. The narrowest measured line width of the main fluorescence band has been determined to be about 5 meV at the lowest excitation intensities. At higher intensities at least three additional observations are made:  the mai...
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The present study was performed to improve early lung cancer diagnosis in bronchial washing fluid, thereby increasing the diagnostic sensitivity of bronchoscopy by means of high-resolution flow cytometry (FC). We combined dual-parameter DNA/protein FC and conventional cytology in bronchial washing fluid samples from 112 patients with neoplastic and...
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The feasibility of a rod-shaped 1 MHz length extension quartz resonator as a probe for scanning near-field acoustic microscopy was investigated. A corner of the quartz rod which is exposed at an angle of 45 ° to the surface of the sample is used as a probing tip. The damping of the vibration increases with the approach of the tip to the sample and...
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Cells from a group of 185 patients suffering from malignant tumours (160 non-small-cell lung carcinoma, 13 small-cell lung carcinoma, and 12 non-epithelial tumours) and 6 with benign lung tumours were studied by flow cytometry in order to detect the prognostic value of DNA content. A total of 144 (90%) non-small-cell lung carcinomas (NSCLC) and 8 (...
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With the aim of distinguishing neoplastic cell sub-populations of different prognostic and diagnostic significance, dual-parameter measurements (DNA/protein) have been simultaneously determined in a (256, 256) channel matrix in lung samples derived from 110 patients affected by neoplastic and non-neoplastic lung diseases. Biparametric analysis demo...
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A previously described technique from the author's laboratories for purification of pancreatic islets by fluorescence-activated cell sorting used the dye neutral red (NR) to obtain specific fluorescence of islets sufficient to give a sorting signal. A major drawback with this technique was the need to inject the dye intravascularly before excision...
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Using flow cytometric DNA measurement and sorting combined with morphometric light microscopy, different groups of cells were studied in a human melanoma pleural effusion, a human melanoma lymph node metastasis and a mouse tumor, as well as in normal reference tissues. Beside cells of the predominant tumor cell population, three types of rare tumor...
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Correlated DNA- and protein-determinations were performed using flow cytometry and DAPI-sulforhodamine 101 (SR101) staining. Two-wavelength UV-green excitation using a single HBO lamp was found to be superior to single wavelength UV excitation, since it resulted in a higher specificity in the SR101 measurements. The effects of overlapping in the em...
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In order to investigate the cytokinetics of malignant tumors and non-malignant lesions of the lung, tissue samples from 57 patients affected by non-small-cell carcinoma (NSCLC), small-cell carcinoma (SCLC), and benign and inflammatory lesions have been analyzed using the BUdR monoclonal antibody (MAb) method. This method is based on the preparation...
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We present a new technique for specific ex situ fluorescent staining of islets of Langerhans with neutral red. Depending on the concentration of neutral red (1 microgram/ml), this technique allows the differentiation between exocrine and endocrine pancreatic tissue, according to differences in fluorescence intensity. Pancreatic islets can be staine...
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Diploid elongated spermatids of mice were enriched by flow cytometry and cell sorting using a new type of sorter (Partec). The sorted abnormal spermatids were identified morphologically and by nuclear area integration. The radiation-induced increase in the frequency of diploid elongated spermatids was monitored with time following acute X-ray expos...
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To allow clinical pancreatic islet transplantation, the yield and purity of islets must be improved. Intravital staining of islets with neutral red is a specific, nontoxic technique for labeling islets of various species. Using neutral red-stained rat islets, we investigated the known fluorescence absorbance and emission spectra in comparison with...
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After testing the BrdUrd technique on experimental tumour cell lines, we applied the technique to human renal cell carcinoma in vitro. We compared the results with the data acquired after FCM analysis and 3H-thymidine treatment. In contrast to BrdUrd the 3H-thymidine uptake seemed to be limited in suspended cells. FCM data represented the DNA distr...
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A case of prolymphocytic leukemia (PL) is reported, which showed a good response to a new antiblastic schedule (4-epidoxorubicin-asparaginase-dexamethasone) in spite of the resistance to other chemotherapy regimens. However during the course of the disease it was possible to observe the terminal appearance of a small aneuploid cell population in th...
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The cellular DNA-content of 75 malignant testicular germ-cell tumours was determined by flow cytometry. The results are: Aneuploidy is a certain tumour marker in 95% of germ-cell tumours. The DNA-indices range from 2 c (diploid) to 6 c with a modal value around 3 c. 23% of germ-cell tumours are multiclonal. The S-phase percentage is higher than tho...
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Analyses of the cellular DNA content were carried out by flow cytometry (FCM) in 148 adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) to assess the incidence of DNA aneuploidies and its relation to patient characteristics and morphologic subtypes. DNA aneuploidies were found in 54 of 131 patients with de novo AML (41.2%) and in 4 of 17 patients wit...
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Flow cytometry permits the quantitative description of neoplastic cell populations from the point of view of their cytogenetic and cytokinetic features. The advances in preparation of cellular monodispersed samples allow the examination not only of in vitro and hematological, but also of surgical, biopsy, endoscopic, and lavage specimens. The analy...
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Flow cytometric and histological analysis, measurements of testicular weight and sperm head counts were performed to analyze the effects of doxorubicin (DX) and 4'-epi-doxorubicin (4'-epi-DX), two closely related antineoplastic agents, on mouse spermatogenesis. The DNA distribution patterns obtained by flow cytometry indicate the frequency of diffe...
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Antineoplastic agents are known to induce differential cytotoxic and cytostatic effects throughout the cell cycle. Many drugs have greater toxicity for cycling cells and act selectively at one or more phases of the cycle and may cause partial synchrony of surviving cells. However, these observations have been generally carried out on in vitro syste...
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Analyses of the cellular DNA content were carried out in 446 patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid (AML) and lymphoblastic (ALL) leukemias in order to assess the frequency of DNA aneuploidies and its relation to immunologic and morphologic subtypes as well as its prognostic relevance. Based on high resolution FCM analyses and standardized ref...
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Evaluation of the proliferative activities of cell populations has mainly been restricted to the use of autoradiography and flow cytometric measurements. The introduction of a new BrdUrd specific antibody makes it possible to determine exactly the DNA synthesizing cells. The BrdUrd technique is safe with respect to handling and the results are obta...
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Flow cytometric analysis of human and murine testicular tissue was performed in order to determine whether cells exist with a DNA content differing from the expected categories 1 c, 2 c and 4 c, and to estimate the frequencies of diploid elongated spermatids. About 1.5 per cent of the murine testicular cells had an 8 c DNA content. In human testis,...
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In the last seven years cellular DNA contents of 112 testicular tumors and metastases were measured by flow cytometry. The frequency of detected aneuploidies is 95%. The DNA indices range from 2 c (diploid) to 6 c with a modal value around 3 c. 20% of testicular tumors are multiclonal. The S phase frequency is about 30% and higher than in the most...
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Flow cytometric measurements of the cellular DNA contents of 16 testicular biopsies of 15 patients with maldescended testes were performed. 2 patients were children. 11 patients of pubescent or adult age had no haploid germ cells in the tissue of their maldescended testis. One patient with a testis mobilis had about a normal percentage of haploid g...
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The differential pattern of DNA-aneuploidy, detected by flow cytometry (FCM) regarding its frequency, grade and multiclonality, was investigated and correlated to tumor type, malignancy grade, tumor stage and prognosis in a multi-institutional study at the University of Münster. High resolution measurements using admixed normal blood reference cell...
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Numerous cytogenetic [1, 14, 30] as well as single cell cytophotometric [31] studies have revealed karyotype or cellular DNA content abnormalities as a typical finding in various malignant diseases. Reliable detection of clonal DNA aneuploidy, however, was made possible only by modern flow cytometers (FCM) [9, 10] combining high accuracy DNA fluoro...
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The prognosis of patients with cancer is largely determined by the specific histological diagnosis, tumor mass stage, and host performance status. The management of neoplastic disease with the currently available treatment aramamentarium may be further advanced if individual patients' risk factors could be better defined. Some of the determinants o...
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Kinetics-directed drug treatment schedules were tested in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Ten hr after treatment with 1,2:5,6-dianhydrogalactitol (DAG) (at a dose lethal to less than 5% of the cells), a 150% enrichment of cells into the S phase of the cell cycle was observed. This blockade in S phase was reversible and was followed at 18 hr after an e...
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The radiation induced reduction of the number of DNA synthesizing cells (spermatogonia) is described using the fast-working flow cytophotometer. Since there is no shoulder in the initial part of the dose response curve this model of biologic dosimetry is very sensitive. The D50 value is 0.25 Gy; a radiation exposure of only 0.1 Gy can be detected.
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Mutagen-induced variations of the cellular DNA content have been studied in mouse bone marrow cells in vivo using high resolution flow cytometric techniques. During the first days after a single injection of the chemical mutagen cyclophosphamide an increased coefficient of variation in the G1 peak of the flow histograms was observed. The magnitude...
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To provide a rapid method for examining cell cycle dynamics, we utilized continuous exposure of Chinese hamster ovary cells and human colon cancer cells to colcemid to block cycling cells in metaphase, suppressing re-entry into G1. Changes in cell cycle compartment distribution were monitored by DNA flow cytometry. Analysis of the rate of G2 + M co...
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Mouse spermatogenesis was used as an in vivo test system obviously suitable as a biologic dosimeter. Ionizing irradiation induced changes in the frequency distribution of the cellular DNA content of whole testis preparations. These changes can be analysed by flow cytometry. Such measurements deliver information on: (1) an increase of the coefficien...
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A preparation and staining protocol for flow cytometry of mammalian chromosomes is presented which enables us to measure the chromosomal DNA content with high accuracy and to establish the DNA-based karyotype of a cell population. The reproducibilty of this method is demonstrated by the DNA histograms of subsequent subcultures of 12 cell clones der...
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Die DNA-Mengenverteilungen in 84 Primärtumoren und 266 Metastasen wurden bei 225 Patienten mit malignen Melanomen bestimmt. Bei 78% der Patienten wurden aneuploide Zellinien gefunden, wobei 36% der Primärtumoren mehr als eine maligne Zellinie aufwiesen, also multiclonal waren. Folgende zytogenetische Befunde sind bemerkenswert: 1. Es konnten unters...
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Cellular DNA content was determined by means of flow cytometry with the use of DNA specific fluorochromes (ehthidium bromide and mithramycin) in 516 human tissue samples from 440 subjects. Compared to human granulocytes as diploid reference standard, there was a 91 percent incidence of DNA content abnormality difference in DNA content of tumor G10...
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Because cytokinetic studies of the human bone marrow aspirate as a prognostic factor and as a monitor of drug perturbation are frequently inconsistent, we investigated reproducibility of DNA distribution measured by flow cytometry of DNA content in patients with morphologically normal bone marrow. In 15 patients, correlation was noted between DNA d...
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Mice irradiated with doses ranging from 0.1 to 15 Gy using a 60Co-source and controls were killed at intervals varying from 2 to 35 days after irradiation. The DNA content of the testicular cells in single cell suspensions was measured with the pulse cytophotometer to determine the frequencies of the different stages in the spermatogenesis. The rel...
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Flow cytometry has greatly facilitated the routine use of DNA content as a cellular indicator of the stages of the cell cycle and ploidy. DNA content can also be used to distinguish individual chromosomes. Fluorescent staining of chromosome DNA was done with a combination of ethidium bromide and mithramycin in hypotonic solution. Subsequent deterge...
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The cytokinetic response of a human colon carcinoma cell line to cis-dichlorodiammineplatinum(II) was investigated using flow cytometry of DNA content, autoradiography after pulse and continuous tritiated thymidine exposure, and mitotic accumulation after continuous Colcemid treatment. With increasing concentration and exposure time, cis-dichlorodi...
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Methods are given for the preparation and staining of human spermatozoa for flow cytometric DNA measurements. Using agents for the reductive cleavage of disulfide crosslinks and suitable proteolytic enzymes an effective decondensation of the sperm chromatin and a DNA-proportional uptake of fluorochromes is achieved. Thus reliable and precise measur...
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The effect of adriamycin on cell cycle phase progression of CHO cells synchronized into the various phases of the cell cycle by elutriation was investigated by high resolution pulse cytophotometry. Cells treated in all phases of the cell cycle showed delay in their subsequent progression. In addition to the wellknown block of cells in the G2-phase,...
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Flow cytometric studies of cellular DNA content were conducted in 26 patients with a variety of neoplasms. Cell dispersal was achieved with pepsin treatment, and a combination of ethidium bromide and mithramycin was used as DNA specific staining procedure. All measurements were conducted with a new sheath flow chamber in a PHYWE ICP 11 pulse cytoph...
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The DNA content of spermatids of mice carrying Cattanach's translocation has been measured with high precision by flow cytometry. The observation that the two peaks of DNA content in the haploid region of the DNA histograms represent X- and Y-bearing spermatids was tested and confirmed. Using flow cytometry, the difference in DNA content between th...
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Bei Patienten mit akuten Leukämien wurden zellkinetische Parameter an Knochenmarkszellen in einer Reihe von Publikationen sowohl im Hinblick auf prätherapeutische prognostische Faktoren als auch im Rahmen eines zellkinetischen Monitorings der cytostatischen Therapie untersucht [1,2,4,5,8-11,14,17,18,22,24,27,29]. Das dazu verwendete Material wurde...
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Cellular DNA content is a discriminator of cell cycle stage and ploidy. Using pepsin digestion for cell disper sal, a combination of ethidium bromide and mithramycin for DNA fluorochromation, and a new sheath flow cham ber in a PHYWE ICP-11 pulse cytophotometer, we ob tained DNA histogramswith high resolution (coefficientof variation, 2.0 to 7.0; m...

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... In the BC-C, there are many publications with only occasional [13,16,17]. The only study with a large number of cases [18] showed average of 19% of aneuploidy in 509 BCC studied. Unfortunately, this is a service of summons and could not recover it or explain the reason for the signifycant difference with our findings (73.8% of samples of BCC with cellular aneuploidy). ...
... Suitable clones yield an excellent resolution which allows the identification of all chromosome types and opens a way for the detection of persisting aberrations. In earlier approaches to utilize flow cytometric chromosome histograms for mutagenicity studies, the authors analyzed the first mitoses after treatment and used the broadening of the peaks and/or the increasing background for the quantitation of the mutagenic effect [2][3][4][5][6][7]. These approaches remained unsatisfactory, because the sensitivity was low and the specificity was impaired by cytotoxic effects. ...
... Three Euler angles (Ω, Ψ, ω) are defined to establish the relationship between them. As can be seen, the orientation of the z-axis with regard to the lab system is determined by angles Ω and Ψ. Normally, an ideal two-dimensional (2D) model, where a degenerate transition dipole orientates isotropically in two dimensions and thus gives rise to a perpendicular " dark axis " that does not couple to the light field [16], is sufficient to characterize the emission behavior of a spherical QD (I z =0, I x =I y ≠ 0, I is the emitting intensity). However, when the 2D transition moment is not of ideal circular shape, the ideal 2D model needs to be modified by introducing an elliptical parameter [12]. ...
... Fluorescence intensity images of single hypericin molecules on glass and embedded in PVA are shown in Fig.2 Intensity fluctuations in the image patterns occur since the molecule is in a dark state for a certain amount of time, e.g. the triplet state or in another non-emissive states. [35][36][37][38] This blinking is characteristic for a SM and, in addition to the single step photo bleaching, gives an indication that a SM is observed. In order to investigate the blinking dynamic of hypericin, we have recorded intensity time traces of SMs. ...
... Flow-cytometric samples were prepared from fully developed fresh leaves (Galbraith et al. 1983) and processed according to the two-step protocol of Otto et al. (1981), with the concentrations of buffers, dyes and other modifications described in detail by Šmarda et al. (2008) Temsch et al. (2022: Table 1). For the genome size and ploidy level estimations, propidium iodide was used as a fluorochrome, and for the genomic GC content estimation, the samples were coprocessed with DAPI (4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole) fluorochrome (Šmarda et al. 2008(Šmarda et al. , Sliwinska et al. 2022). ...
... The Counter uses a 'no lyse, no wash' procedure for CD4 counting. 16 EDTA-anticoagulated blood (fifty microliters) were added to 10 μl of monoclonal antibodies. After 15 min of incubation, 1ml of no lyse dilution buffer was added and the sample tube was attached to the Counter for automated counting. ...
... Les applications de ces méthodes multiplexées qui permettent l'identification et la quantification simultanée de plusieurs ions ou macromolécules concernent aussi l'identification d'activités enzymatiques et les analyses de polymorphisme. Avec les microbilles utilisées comme support réactionnel, les domaines d'application de la cytométrie en flux vont ainsi de l'analyse cellulaire à l'analyse moléculaire (Lizard et al., 2003). ...
... 32,33 Light excitation and collection can both be accomplished through a nanoaperture at the apex of the otherwise metalcoated tapered optical fiber that serves as the probe. 34 While this method has been previously implemented into cryogenic UHV SPM systems, 35,36 here we will instead focus on apertureless methods. ...
... Up to the present time SMSM has been realised in spectroscopy and microscopy techniques (see e.g. [113][114][115][116]), most commonly used of which will be shortly discussed below. ...
... The main method that has been used so far in anharmonic vibrational spectroscopy calculations for biological molecules [9], small and large, is the vibrational self-consistent field method, including its extensions such as the correlation-corrected VSCF [10]. Applications to molecules where an analytic force field is applied are very effective for monosaccharides, peptides and even proteins [11,12]. Based on these studies this field can be thought of being one of the potential functions which may play a significant part in describing the functioning of a mitotic spindle. ...