PMID: 3744593Sep 15, 1986Paper

Interactions with host macrophages and ability of human melanoma cell lines to grow in nude mice

International Journal of Cancer. Journal International Du Cancer
A BenomarJ F Doré

Abstract

The interactions of nude mouse macrophages with five human melanoma cell lines, characterized by their resistance to mouse NK activity and varying in their ability to grow s.c. in nude mice, were investigated. These lines were equally susceptible in vitro to both cytostatic and tumoricidal activities of activated peritoneal macrophages collected from nude mice inoculated 3 days previously with Brucella abortus B19R strains. I.p. injection of a poorly tumorigenic melanoma cell line (PTCL) in nude mice was followed by the local appearance of macrophages able to kill these cells in a 48-hr 3H-thymidine cytotoxicity assay. The level of tumoricidal macrophages was maximum for the first week and then slowly declined to disappear by the 4th week following PTCL inoculation. The use of an HTCL instead of a PTCL also induced macrophages able to kill HTCL cells, but the cytotoxicity level was lower and the activity disappeared more rapidly. In cross-experiments using PTCL-activated macrophages as effectors on HTCL targets, these cells were found to be less sensitive than PTCL cells when macrophages were taken at weeks 2 and 3 following PTCL inoculation. To investigate whether tumoricidal macrophages activated in vivo with human melanoma c...Continue Reading

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