PMID: 2105837Mar 1, 1990Paper

Maintenance and cure of the L5178Y murine tumor-dormant state by interleukin 2: dependence of interleukin 2 on induced interferon-gamma and on tumor necrosis factor for its antitumor effects

Cancer Research
L ChenE F Wheelock

Abstract

We reported previously that treatment of peritoneal cell (PC) cultures prepared from mice which harbor L5178Y lymphoma cells in a tumor-dormant state in their peritoneal cavity with interleukin 2 (HuIL-2) stimulated antitumor cytotoxic activity in both the nonadherent and adherent populations derived from such cultures. We report here that HuIL-2 induced the production of murine gamma interferon (MuIFN-gamma) in these PC cultures and required Lyt-1-, Lyt-2-, and L3T4-expressing lymphocytes to do so. HuIL-2 required and synergized with this induced MuIFN-gamma to stimulate cytotoxic activity in the nonadherent PC and the MuIFN-gamma itself stimulated cytotoxic activity in the adherent PC. Cyclosporin A prevented both the induction of MuIFN-gamma and the development of antitumor cytotoxic activity in HuIL-2-treated PC cultures. An addback of exogenous MuIFN-gamma to HuIL-2-cyclosporin A-treated PC cultures and to the nonadherent subpopulation of such cultures, at a concentration which itself produced no antitumor effect, permitted HuIL-2 to induce its antitumor effect. We previously reported that MuIFN-gamma requires the action of murine tumor necrosis factor (MuTNF) to induce cytotoxic activity in PC cultures from tumor-dormant ...Continue Reading

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