Blood, 1958, Vol. 13, No. 12, pp. 1176-1184.
© 1958 American Society of Hematology, Inc.
On the Presence of Hemoglobin in Erythroleukemia Cells
JACK COWLES 1,
JOUKO SAIKKONEN 1, and
BO THORELL 1
1 Department of Pathology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
The neoplastic cells in acute erythroleukemia of the fowl appear to contain
microspectrographically detectable amounts of hemoglobin in their cytoplasms.
The acute myeloleukemia cells show no measureable specific absorption at
all in the Soret band spectral region. Similar findings were obtained on cells
from one case of human erythroleukemia and one of acute lymphatic leukemia.
Submitted on February 10, 1958
Accepted on June 14, 1958