Quantitation of proliferative and cytotoxic precursor cells directed against human tumours: Limiting dilution analysis in peripheral blood and at the tumour site
- 15 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Cancer
- Vol. 30 (2), 135-142
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.2910300202
Abstract
Blood and tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) from 16 cancer patients have been examined under limiting dilution conditions to determine the frequency of cells responding in mixed tumour-lymphocyte cultures (MLTC) to autologous tumour and Interleukin-2 (IL-2). Tumour-derived lymphocytes showed a high spontaneous response to IL-2 alone 1/1,900 in TIL; 1/6,000 in PBL suggesting the presence of “activated” T cells in situ. Proliferative frequencies were increased in MLTC in both blood (1/3,779) and TIL (1/1,084). Phenotypic analyses showed that total T-cell contents of the responder populations were comparable but TIL were enriched for the OKT8+ subset with a corresponding reduction in OKT4+. TIL showed increased numbers of OKMI+ and Tac+ lymphocytes. The major cytotoxic precursor expanding under these conditions was reactive against autologous tumour. K562 (NK) were present at a lesser frequency -particularly in TIL The data show a concentration and activation of reactive lymphocytes at the tumour site and establish conditions for the clonal expansion of specifically cytotoxck T cells.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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