Low density lipoprotein (LDL), the major cholesteroltransport protein in human plasma, binds to specific receptors on mammalian cells and is taken up by receptor-mediated endocytosis and digested in lysosomes, thereby delivering cholesterol to the cells. In the current paper, we establish conditions in which the growth of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells and the Raji line of human malignant ly...

background: the rh antigens are expressed as parts of a protein complex in the rbc membrane. this complex is a tetramer, consisting of two molecules of rhag and two molecules of rh proteins. to express rhd in rbc membrane, expression of rhag is essential. this co-expression only occurs in the erythroid lineage. k562 cell line has an erythroid lineage. materials and methods: cord blood was used ...

Raji, a malignant B-lymphocyte cell line containing Epstein-Barr virus genomic elements, has been conditioned to proliferate optimally in transferrin (Tf)-free medium containing a very low concentration of an iron salt. We provide evidence that an Tf-independent iron uptake system is physiologically important for maintaining the growth of these cells. The data show that Raji cells take up iron ...

introduction: radioimmunotherapy (rit) is a very promising new therapy for the treatment of recurrent b-cell non-hodgkin's lymphoma (nhl). iodine-131 is the most frequently used nuclide in clinical rit, but its usefulness has been limited by dehalogenation of monoclonal antibodies labeled via conventional methods. to circumvent this problem, we have synthesized a tri-peptide consisting of non-m...

Early stage detection of lymphoma cells is invaluable for providing reliable prognosis to patients. However, the purity of lymphoma cells in extracted samples from human patients' marrow is typically low. To address this issue, we report here our work on using optically-induced dielectrophoresis (ODEP) force to rapidly purify Raji cells' (a type of Burkitt's lymphoma cell) sample from red blood...

one of the major complications in cancer chemotherapy is the development of resistance, and cisplatin, as one of the important medicines in treatment regimens of different cancers is not excluded. one of the most described cellular defense mechanisms involved in resistance is glutathione (gsh) and in this study, the effects of cisplatin on the total intracellular gsh level (gshi) in some sensit...

Human lymphoblastoid lines of various origins which harbour Epstein-Burr virus (EBV)-specific nucleic acid were re-exposed to EBV. Following infection, cells of the non-virus-producing lines, Raji and S 95, predominantly synthesized EB V-specific early antigens ( E A ) , whereas only a small percentage of cells revealed viral capsid antigens ( VCA). In Raji cells, the number of VCA-producing ce...

UNLABELLED Non-Hodgkin lymphomas incidence has increased more than 70% in last 25 years. Aggressiveness, higher relapse rate, and treatment complications pose significant barriers. Decreased food intake and side effects of treatments make cancer patients vulnerable to deficiency of essential nutrients such as vitamin C, lysine, and proline leading to the formation of weak extra cellular matrix ...