title: Studies of the mechanisms for the induction of in vivo tumor immunity. IV. Enhancement of the in vitro generation of secondary cell-mediated cytotoxic response by normal peritoneal macrophages and their culture supernatants.
abstract: The effect of macrophages on the induction of the cell-mediated cytotoxicity against a leukemia in a syngeneic system was investigated. The addition of exogenous peritoneal cells from normal C57BL/6 MIce enhanced the in vitro secondary cell-mediated cytotoxic response of both spleen and lymph node cells as responding cells against syngeneic FBL-3 leukemia. Peritoneal phagocytic macrophages seemed to be responsible for the enhancement. No inhibitory effect was demonstrated by the addition of peritoneal macrophages at a concentration as high as 20%, whereas the primary cytotoxic allograft response was significantly suppressed. In the present studies, there was no absolute restriction of macrophage-T cell interaction by an H-2 barrier. Supernatants of peritoneal macrophage cultures also enhanced this cell-mediated cytotoxic response. There was no difference between the effects of syngeneic or allogeneic peritoneal macrophage culture supernatants.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001202:Ascitic Fluid / Q000276:immunology; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D004306:Dose-Response Relationship, Immunologic; D005260:Female; D007065:Idoxuridine / Q000378:metabolism; D007111:Immunity, Cellular; D007156:Immunologic Memory; D007700:Kinetics; D007942:Leukemia, Experimental / Q000276:immunology*; D007959:Lymphocyte Culture Test, Mixed; D008264:Macrophages / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D011817:Rabbits; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D007065:Idoxuridine