ISSN:
1432-0851
Keywords:
Acute interstitial nephritis
;
Renal cell cancer
;
Interleukin-2
;
Immunotherapy
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract A patient with renal cell cancer developed acute renal failure due to biopsy-proven acute tubulo-interstitial nephritis (AIN) in the 6th week of continuous infusion of 9 × 106 IU m−2 day−1 recombinant interleukin-2 (rIL-2). We investigated whether the AIN was the result of a cellular cytotoxic reaction induced by the rIL-2 treatment. The cytolytic activity of cryopreserved peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL), isolated before and at the end of the rIL-2 treatment (at the time of AIN), was studied after 5 days of culture with or without rIL-2 or anti-CD28 and immobilized anti-CD3 antibodies. The PBL isolated before and at the end of the rIL-2 treatment showed cytolytic activity towards a number of allogeneic targets. However, only the PBL isolated at the end of the rIL-2 treatment showed, when stimulated with rIL-2 in vitro, significant cytolytic activity against an autologous renal cell line cultured from the AIN biopsy specimen and against an allogeneic renal cell cancer cell line. These PBL displayed no enhanced killing capacity towards autologous PBL and the melanoma cell line M14. These observations suggest that the AIN may be the result of a cytotoxic lymphocyte-mediated reaction induced by the rIL-2 treatment.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01741094
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