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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-1335
    Keywords: IL-12 ; IL-2 ; LAK ; CTL ; Cancer
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract In this study, we evaluated the ability of combination regimens of interleukin-12 (IL-12) and interleukin-2 (IL-2) to induce effective killer cells against human tumors in vitro, in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) from 15 cancer patients and mixed lymphocyte/tumor culture (MLTC) cells from 16 cancer patients, and carried out a phenotypic analysis of the cells responsible for the lysis of the human tumors. The freshly prepared PBL were cultivated with IL-2 alone or IL-12/IL-2 for 10 days [lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cell generation system]. The MLTC cells (PBL cultured with mitomycin-C-treated allogeneic G-415 tumor cells for 3 days) were further cultivated with IL-2 or IL-12/IL-2 for 7 days [cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) generation system]. The cytolytic activities of the lymphoid cells cultivated with IL-12/IL-2 were significantly augmented in both the LAK and CTL generation systems, as compared with those of cells treated with IL-2 alone. In the LAK generation system, the cytolytic activities of the cells cultivated with IL-12/IL-2 were significantly decreased by the method of negative selection of CD11b+ or CD56+ cells using immunomagnetic beads. The CD8+-depleted cells showed a slight decrease of activity. The killer cell activities of the CD4+-depleted cells remained unchanged. In the CTL generation system, the activity was markedly reduced by the elimination of the CD8+ or CD11b+ or CD56+ cells. The combined data suggested that IL-12/IL-2-induced killer effector cells in the LAK generation system were mainly of the natural killer (NK) type, comprising CD8−CD11b+, CD8− CD16b−, CD3−CD56+, and partly possible CD8+ CD11b−T cells. CD8+ CD11b−T cells mixed with cells of the NK type, comprising CD8−CD11b+, CD8− CD16b− and CD3−CD56+ cells, were the population of killer effector cells induced by IL-12/IL-2 in the CTL generation system.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-1335
    Keywords: Key words IL-12 ; IL-2 ; LAK ; CTL ; Cancer
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract In this study, we evaluated the ability of combination regimens of interleukin-12 (IL-12) and interleukin-2 (IL-2) to induce effective killer cells against human tumors in vitro, in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) from 15 cancer patients and mixed lymphocyte/tumor culture (MLTC) cells from 16 cancer patients, and carried out a phenotypic analysis of the cells responsible for the lysis of the human tumors. The freshly prepared PBL were cultivated with IL-2 alone or IL-12/IL-2 for 10 days [lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cell generation system]. The MLTC cells (PBL cultured with mitomycin-C-treated allogeneic G-415 tumor cells for 3 days) were further cultivated with IL-2 or IL-12/IL-2 for 7 days [cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) generation system]. The cytolytic activities of the lymphoid cells cultivated with IL-12/IL-2 were significantly augmented in both the LAK and CTL generation systems, as compared with those of cells treated with IL-2 alone. In the LAK generation system, the cytolytic activities of the cells cultivated with IL-12/IL-2 were significantly decreased by the method of negative selection of CD11b+ or CD56+ cells using immunomagnetic beads. The CD8+-depleted cells showed a slight decrease of activity. The killer cell activities of the CD4+-depleted cells remained unchanged. In the CTL generation system, the activity was markedly reduced by the elimination of the CD8+ or CD11b+ or CD56+ cells. The combined data suggested that IL-12/IL-2-induced killer effector cells in the LAK generation system were mainly of the natural killer (NK) type, comprising CD8−CD11b+, CD8− CD16b+, CD3−CD56+, and partly possible CD8+ CD11b− T cells. CD8+CD11b− T cells mixed with cells of the NK type, comprising CD8−CD11b+, CD8− CD16b+ and CD3−CD56+ cells, were the population of killer effector cells induced by IL-12/IL-2 in the CTL generation system.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1573-2568
    Keywords: Helicobacter pylori ; chronic gastritis ; Fas receptor ; Fas ligand ; immune privilege ; apoptosis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract H. pylori infection almost invariably results in chronic gastritis, but only a proportion of patients develops severe destruction of epithelial glandular structure or peptic ulcer. To confirm the recent data obtained in testis and eye, showing that Fas ligand is involved in the phenomenon of “immune privilege,” expression of Fas receptor and its ligand of the stomach was investigated in a panel of gastric biopsies obtained from patients H. pylori-positive (N = 42) and with H. pylori-negative (N = 18) by two-color flow cytometry. The results show that membrane-bound Fas ligand protein is constitutively expressed on freshly isolated human gastric mucosal epithelium coupled with infiltrating lymphocytes. There was significant overexpression of Fas receptor and its ligand, and a higher frequency of apoptotic cell death detected by TUNEL in epithelium and infiltrating lymphocytes in H. pylori-infected patients. These findings suggest that involvement of Fas receptor and its ligand system contributes to some extent to mucosal damage in H. pylori-associated gastritis. However, the more specific findings are apoptotic depletion of invading mucosal lymphocytes associated with Fas ligand expression by gastric epithelium. These provide the first direct quantitative evidence to support Fas receptor counterattack and/or paracrine fratricide as a mechanism of immune privilege in vivo in the H. pylori-infected glandular stomach.
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