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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1984-11-9
pubmed:abstractText
Macrophage populations may be induced to express tumoricidal or bactericidal activities following exposure to certain stimuli. An understanding of the differences in the stimulatory mechanisms and in the characteristics of the macrophages they affect will be facilitated by comparing functional activities of various macrophage populations. The experiments described here were conducted to determine whether injection of a single stimulus necessarily drives cells to express both tumoricidal and bactericidal activities or whether selected reagents can drive cells to express one activity without expressing the other. The data show that a single population of mouse or hamster peritoneal exudate cells obtained following injection of proteose peptone is bactericidal for Listeria monocytogenes and for E. coli, but is not tumoricidal for TCMK-1, Ad2HE3, or mKS-A TU-5 target cells. In contrast, peritoneal exudate cells collected after injection of Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) organisms are always highly tumoricidal, and either show no effect on Listeria monocytogenes or E. coli, or are at best bacteriostatic. Data indicate that the effector cells in these assays are macrophages, that the dissociation of tumoricidal and bactericidal activity occurs over a wide dose range, and that the tumoricidal capabilities are not artifacts of the assay system. These results suggest that a given macrophage population may preferentially express tumoricidal or bactericidal activities depending on the stimulus used.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0741-5400
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
36
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
293-306
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Caseins, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Cricetinae, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Cytotoxicity, Immunologic, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-DNA Replication, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Female, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Leukocytes, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Macrophage Activation, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Macrophages, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Male, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Mesocricetus, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Mice, Inbred Strains, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Mycobacterium bovis, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Neoplasms, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Peptide Fragments, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Peptones, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Phagocytosis, pubmed-meshheading:6384403-Rats
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
Differential expression of macrophage effector functions: bactericidal versus tumoricidal activities.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't