title: Generation of lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells and possible implications in autologous bone marrow transplantation--a preliminary report.
abstract: Lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells were generated successfully without mitogen from blood mononuclear cells obtained from 14 patients with varying malignancies and 2 normal donors. Cells from both groups showed a positive cytotoxicity by a 4-hour 51-Cr-release assay against a variety of target cells including natural killer (NK) sensitive K562 myeloid leukemia, NK-resistant Raji lymphoma cell lines, and fresh/cryopreserved leukemia cells from patients refractory to standard chemotherapy but not normal blood cells. Higher cytotoxic activity was obtained with a higher effector:target ratio at 100:1 greater than 50:1 greater than 25:1 (P less than 0.01) in each setting of different targets. Experiments involving cocultures of the LAK cells with either allogeneic (9) or autologous (3) bone marrow cells disclosed no detrimental effect on the committed hemopoietic stem cells by semisolid agar colony forming unit (CFU-GM) assay. The findings suggest that LAK cells may have a potential role for the in vitro purging of the residual leukemic cells from the marrow inoculum prepared for autologous bone marrow transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Veterans General Hospital, Republic of China.
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Tzeng
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Chuang
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Hsieh
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000494:pharmacology; D007694:Killer Cells, Natural / Q000187:drug effects / Q000276:immunology*; D007700:Kinetics; D007938:Leukemia / Q000276:immunology*; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014411:Neoplastic Stem Cells; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D007376:Interleukin-2