title: Infusion of autologous alloactivated lymphocytes in melanoma patients: toxicity and immunologic monitoring.
abstract: Previous work has shown that infusion of autologous helper-enriched, alloactivated lymphocytes in melanoma patients may induce, in addition to other mild signs of toxicity, a transient but sharp elevation of blood pressure. To avoid such a disturbing symptom, the in vitro protocol of peripheral blood lymphocyte activation has been modified. In the present study we show that such a modification has led to a lower toxicity of autologous lymphocyte infusion in 4 melanoma patients; in particular, hypertension was no longer observed. In addition, an immunologic monitoring was carried out in these patients. In 1 of 4 patients the treatment enhanced the in vitro cytotoxic activity of peripheral blood lymphocytes against autologous tumor cells. Other parameters such as NK activity and T4/T8 ratio did not show significant trends. The possible implications of these findings for clinical trials of adoptive immunotherapy with lymphocytes are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001804:Blood Transfusion, Autologous; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007167:Immunotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D007375:Interleukin-1 / Q000096:biosynthesis; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000096:biosynthesis; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D007375:Interleukin-1; D007376:Interleukin-2