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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-6-1
pubmed:abstractText
Electrochemotherapy is an antitumor treatment that combines a cytotoxic drug with the local administration of electric pulses delivered at the tumor site. We previously found that in mice the cure rate of subcutaneous transplanted tumors treated by electrochemotherapy is increased by repeated systemic interleukin-2 (IL-2) injections. Moreover, histoincompatible cells engineered to secrete IL-2 allow the rejection of syngeneic tumor cells when both cells are inoculated together. In this study of preestablished tumors in mice we show that after electrochemotherapy, delayed peritumoral injections of histoincompatible IL-2-producing cells result in the cure of almost all the tumors. Moreover, this combined local treatment leads to cures of untreated, contralaterally transplanted tumors. This systemic antitumor immunity also resulted in complete protection of the cured mice against further inocula of the tumor cells. These results, which were obtained using allogeneic as well as xenogeneic IL-2-secreting cells, suggest that electrochemotherapy combined with such cellular immunotherapy might be a useful approach for the treatment of metastasizing cancers.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1067-5582
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
17
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
30-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7537154-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-Bleomycin, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-CHO Cells, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-Carcinoma, Lewis Lung, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-Combined Modality Therapy, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-Cricetinae, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-Edema, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-Electric Stimulation Therapy, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-Immunotherapy, Adoptive, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-Interleukin-2, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-Sarcoma, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-T-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:7537154-Transfection
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Systemic antitumor effects of electrochemotherapy combined with histoincompatible cells secreting interleukin-2.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire de Pharmacologie Moléculaire, URA 147 CNRS, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't