title: [Effect of malignant ascitic fluids and OK-432 on the induction of LAK activity in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of gynecological cancer patients].
abstract: Recently, successful treatment of peritonitis carcinomatosa by intraperitoneal administration of lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells followed by intraperitoneal recombinant interleukin 2 (rIL-2) has been reported by several authors, in spite of the well documented results of the immunosuppressive activity of malignant ascitic fluid. We investigated the effect of malignant ascitic fluid on in vitro induction of LAK cells obtained from patients' peripheral blood mononuclear cells. We also examined whether Streptococcal preparation OK-432, which has been instilled into the peritoneal cavity to treat malignant ascites, is able to synergize with rIL-2 to induce LAK activity, and the following results were obtained; 1. A little augmentation of LAK activity was observed at a lower concentration of malignant ascitic fluid, while the results were diversified at a concentration higher than 10%. In two cases out of six, a severe suppressive effect was observed at a concentration higher than 40%. At the higher concentration, fewer cells were recovered after a 5 day culture in all cases. 2. No augmentation of LAK activity following the combination of OK-432 with rIL-2 was observed. At a lower concentration of OK-432 (ranging from 0.01-0.04KE/ml), the number of cells increased in comparison with rIL-2 alone. These results suggest that the potential of adoptively transferred LAK cells followed by rIL-2 was not effectively suppressed by malignant ascitic fluid in vivo and that the administration of OK-432 followed by rIL-2 could induce a larger number of various killer cells than rIL-2 alone.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Osaka City University Medical School.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kanaoka
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Umesaki
mesh_terms: D001201:Ascites / Q000276:immunology*; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000494:pharmacology; D015979:Killer Cells, Lymphokine-Activated / Q000276:immunology*; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000276:immunology*; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology*; D010844:Picibanil / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D007376:Interleukin-2; D010844:Picibanil