Table 1.

Expansion of Autologous T Cells From Bulk Cultures of Pre-B–Cell ALL Bone Marrow in the Presence of Direct or Bystander Costimulation

ConditionsT-Cell NumberT-Cell Expansion
CD4+CD8+(fold increase)
TotalCD4+CD8+
t-NEO 
t-B7-1 1.3 × 106 3.2 × 106 3.1 1.7 4.6 
t-B7-2 1.1 × 106 2.2 × 106 2.2 1.4 3.1 
t-B7-1 + t-B7-2 1.3 × 106 2.6 × 106 2.6 1.7 3.7 
CD28 MoAb 13.2 × 106 34.3 × 106 32.7 16.5 49.0 
CD28 MoAb + IL-2 17.1 × 106 36.9 × 106 37.3 21.4 52.7 
sCD40L 18.1 × 106 48.9 × 106 44.7 22.6 69.8 
sCD40L + IL-2 23.0 × 106 46.8 × 106 48.0 28.8 66.9 
ConditionsT-Cell NumberT-Cell Expansion
CD4+CD8+(fold increase)
TotalCD4+CD8+
t-NEO 
t-B7-1 1.3 × 106 3.2 × 106 3.1 1.7 4.6 
t-B7-2 1.1 × 106 2.2 × 106 2.2 1.4 3.1 
t-B7-1 + t-B7-2 1.3 × 106 2.6 × 106 2.6 1.7 3.7 
CD28 MoAb 13.2 × 106 34.3 × 106 32.7 16.5 49.0 
CD28 MoAb + IL-2 17.1 × 106 36.9 × 106 37.3 21.4 52.7 
sCD40L 18.1 × 106 48.9 × 106 44.7 22.6 69.8 
sCD40L + IL-2 23.0 × 106 46.8 × 106 48.0 28.8 66.9 

At day 0, 1 × 108 MNCs were plated per condition in the bulk culture. For the patient represented here (ALL-17), T cells represented 1.5% of the bone marrow MNCs and the initial number of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells per condition was, respectively, 0.8 × 106 and 0.7 × 106 cells.

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