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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-6-9
pubmed:abstractText
To examine whether donor T cells can grow and survive long term in hosts without previous immunosuppression, cultured T cells (B6/Thy 1.1) specific to FBL-3 tumor were adoptively transferred into normal B6/Thy 1.2 mice and induced to proliferate in vivo by specific stimulation with irradiated FBL-3. Donor T cells residing in the spleen and ascites of hosts were identified and quantified by use of Ab to the Thy-1 allele. The results demonstrated that on day 7 after transfer, donor T cells in greater numbers than input (1.2-fold) could be recovered. By day 35, donor T cells had decreased to approximately 10% of T cells input. Administration of IL-2 at doses of 2,500 or 25,000 U/day for 7 days preferentially increased the growth of Ag-activated donor T cells rather than host lymphocytes, and increased both the short term growth on day 7 (6.6-fold and 14.5-fold greater than input, respectively) and the long term survival on day 35 (0.75-fold and 3.15-fold of input, respectively) of donor T cells. The combination of CY pretreatment plus low dose IL-2 (2,500 U/day) increased donor T cell growth over and above that of either manipulation alone. However, with higher dose IL-2 to 25,000 U/day, donor T cell growth was equivalent in CY-pretreated and normal hosts (18-fold vs 16-fold increase, respectively; p > 0.05). With either dose of IL-2 there was no significant difference in the survival of donor T cells on day 35 in CY-pretreated vs normal hosts. Functional assay confirmed that specific cytolytic function of donor T cells could be maintained in hosts without previous immunosuppression. Accordingly, established disseminated FBL-3 leukemia could be cured without CY treatment, in a regimen using 10(7) cultured immune T cells plus IL-2 (25,000 U/day x 7 days). Thus, adoptively transferred donor T cells can be grown to large numbers and survive long term in vivo with maintenance of substantial function without the necessity of previous host immunosuppression.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0022-1767
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
152
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
4767-74
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Donor T cells can be induced to grow and survive long term in vivo without previous host immunosuppression.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.