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To study the distribution profile of CD45RO+ and CD45RA+ T cells in the peripheral blood of peripheral T cell lymphoma (PTCL) patients and its clinical significance. 27 patients with PTCL were enrolled in this study, together with 30 healthy individuals as the control group. Flow cytometry analysis was employed to examinate the differences in the distribution of CD45RO+ and CD45RA+ T cells in peripheral blood between two groups. In PTCL patient’s lymphnode tissues, the T cell population displayed diverse antigenic expression, with CD4+ T cells as the major subset. No B cell-related antigen was expressed. The percentage of CD4+/CD8+ and CD4+CD45RO+ T cells in patients’ peripheral blood were significantly lower than that in the control samples, while the percentage of CD4+CD45RA+, CD8+CD45RA+, and CD8+CD45RO+ T cells in patients’ peripheral blood were significantly higher than that in the control samples. The percentage of CD4+/CD8+, CD4+CD45RO+ cells in stage I/II PTCL patients’ peripheral blood were significantly higher than that in the samples from patients with stage III/IV PTCL. The percentage of CD4+CD45RA+, CD8+CD45RA+, and CD8+CD45RO+ T cells were notably lower than that in the samples from III/IV period PTCL patients. Both CD45RO+ and CD45RA+ T cells play important roles in the process of PTCL. The immunophenotypic profile from this study will help to develop the differential diagnosis and treatment of PTCL patients in the future, and improve the accuracy rate of diagnosis and to ameliorate the prognosis.
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Yang, W., Jia, X., Su, Y. et al. Immunophenotypic Characterization of CD45RO+ and CD45RA+ T Cell Subsets in Peripheral Blood of Peripheral T Cell Lymphoma Patients. Cell Biochem Biophys 70, 993–997 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12013-014-0008-3
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