title: Natural killer activity against cultured human neural tumor and fetal brain cells.
abstract: Ten human neural tumor lines and three established from normal human brain were analyzed for sensitivities to natural killer (NK) cytolysis. Compared to MOLT-4, fetal brain cells were sensitive, but those from adult brain and eight of ten neural tumor cell lines demonstrated marked NK resistance. The frequencies of target-binding cells (TBC) and single-cell lysis of glioma cells bound within tumor cell conjugates demonstrated that the resistance of two lines was explained either by a decrease in the frequencies of TBC or reduced ability of bound NK cells to lyse the tumor cell conjugates. A third resistant line demonstrated decreases in both TBC and tumor cell conjugate lysis. Two glioma lines with less NK resistance had greater frequencies of TBC or conjugate lysis than the resistant lines. Thus, NK resistance can result from decreased recognition of targets, diminished NK lysis of bound targets, or a combination of both.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Yates
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Icard-Liepkalns
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Sirinek
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Stephens
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Elder
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Liepkalns
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Whisler
mesh_terms: D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000503:physiopathology; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003601:Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic; D005333:Fetus; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000503:physiopathology; D005910:Glioma / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007694:Killer Cells, Natural / Q000276:immunology*; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000503:physiopathology; D009837:Oligodendroglioma / Q000503:physiopathology; D012794:Sialic Acids / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D012794:Sialic Acids