Serum proteins in prostatic cancer VI. Reduction of the suppressive ("blocking"?) properties of serum on in vitro parameters of cell-mediated immunologic responsiveness following cryosurgery

Urologia Internationalis
R J Ablin

Abstract

Preliminary studies of sera from prostatic cancer patients have indicated a reduction in the presence of suppressive ('blocking'?) properties of in vitro parameters of cell-mediated immunologic responsiveness induced by a non-specific mitogen (phytohaemagglutinin) in association with a decrease in the level of alpha2-globulin and favourable clinical response following cryosurgery. The origin of the immunosuppression factor(s) migrating on electrophoresis in the alpha2-globulin fraction of serum remains to be identified. Earlier demonstration of suppression of leucocyte migration by factors elaborated from tumour cells and recent observations of the suppression of lymphocytic reactivity by seminal plasma and coaguloprostatic fluid suggest that suppression and reduction or abrogation of the suppressive properties of serum following cryosurgical destruction of tumour may be attributed to a reduction in soluble prostatic tumour-associated antigen shed into the circlation by previously viable tumour. Such antigen while not at a sufficient concentration to engender an immunologic response in the aging and tumour-burdened host, may, however, have been sufficient to pre-empt the effector limb of cell-mediated responsiveness contributin...Continue Reading

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Jan 14, 2012·Clinical & Developmental Immunology·Sebastian P HaenCécile Gouttefangeas

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