title: Augmented accumulation of transferred lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells at murine tumor sites through production of LAK-attractant facilitated by chemotherapy.
abstract: We observed that effects of adoptive immunotherapy with lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells on BMT-11, a fibrosarcoma in C57BL/6 mice were improved by combination with cyclophosphamide (CY)-chemotherapy corresponding to enhanced accumulation at tumor sites of LAK cells. On the other hand, cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) which were able to accumulate at tumor sites more densely than LAK cells produced significant therapeutic effects by themselves. We have also found observed that LAK-attractant activity was detected in conditioned medium (CM) of CY-treated tumor tissue but not in the CM of untreated tumor tissue. These findings reveal that CY-chemotherapy facilitates LAK-attractant-production and enhances the accumulation in tumor tissue of LAK cells and that therapeutic effects of adoptive transfer of LAK cells are augmented by cancer chemotherapy through the enhanced accumulation of LAK cells.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Pathology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hosokawa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wakizaka
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kuramitsu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Micallef
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Togashi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003520:Cyclophosphamide / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005354:Fibrosarcoma / Q000628:therapy*; D016219:Immunotherapy, Adoptive; D015979:Killer Cells, Lymphokine-Activated / Q000276:immunology*; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL
chemical_list: D003520:Cyclophosphamide