Cytokines and pancreatic cancer. The effect of rIFN-gamma, HuLeIFN, rTNF-alpha, and LAK-cells on pancreatic and other gastrointestinal tumors in vitro

International Journal of Pancreatology : Official Journal of the International Association of Pancreatology
J S KühlM Dietel

Abstract

A panel of 10 digestive tract carcinoma cell lines (6 pancreatic carcinomas) was assayed for their sensitivity to HuLeIFN, human rIFN-gamma, rTNF-alpha and allogeneic human LAK-cells in vitro. In addition, a combination of rIFN-gamma + rTNF-alpha was tested on 3 pancreatic carcinoma cell lines. Whereas 6/7 cell lines were completely resistant to HuLeIFN, rIFN-gamma and rTNF-alpha did inhibit growth of some carcinomas tested. The individual sensitivity was heterogenous as is already known from cytostatics. Response to rIFN-gamma tended to increase with increment of cell doubling time. Only high concentrations (greater than 1000 U/ml) of rIFN-gamma displayed cytotoxicity on sensitive tumors. The antitumoral effect of rIFN-gamma was stimulated by rTNF-alpha. As revealed by isobole analysis this interaction was synergistic in all pancreatic carcinomas tested. In comparison to rIFN-gamma or rTNF-alpha the response to LAK-cells was slightly superior at high effector target ratios, even though heterogenous.

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