Publication Date:
1984-09-28
Description:
The activation of human peripheral blood leukocytes or murine splenocytes with interleukin-2 (IL-2) generated cells that were lytic in vitro for a variety of fresh tumor cells. The adoptive transfer of such lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells to mice with established pulmonary sarcoma metastases was highly effective in reducing the number (and size) of these tumor nodules when combined with repeated injections of recombinant IL-2. These findings provide a rationale for clinical trials of the infusion of human LAK cells generated with recombinant IL-2 as well as Phase I trials of the infusion of recombinant IL-2 systemically into humans.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mule, J J -- Shu, S -- Schwarz, S L -- Rosenberg, S A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1984 Sep 28;225(4669):1487-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6332379" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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DNA, Recombinant
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*Immunization, Passive
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Interleukin-2/pharmacology/*therapeutic use
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Killer Cells, Natural/*immunology
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Lung Neoplasms/secondary/*therapy
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Lymphocyte Activation
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Sarcoma, Experimental/secondary/*therapy
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Spleen/cytology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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