title: Relationship between lymphocytic cytotoxicity and phytohemagglutinin-induced lymphoblastogenesis before and after surgical tumor excision: an experimental study.
abstract: Experimental study was performed on changes in lymphocytic cytotoxicity and phytohemagglutinin (PHA)-lymphoblastogenesis after surgical tumor excision and on a possibility of estimating antitumor immunocompetence based on the latter parameter, using 3-methyl-cholanthrene-induced mammary cancer, MRMT-1, of SD rats. When the tumor was excised at 2 weeks after inoculation, cytotoxicity showed, after a transient rise, a marked reduction at 4 weeks postoperatively in the cases of postoperative negative metastasis, while it showed a high peak at 3 weeks postoperatively, followed by a sharp descent, in the cases of postoperative positive metastasis. On the other hand, PHA-lymphoblastogenesis was found to recover a relatively high level postoperatively, in the cases of both negative and positive metastases. It appears to be difficult to estimate specific cytotoxicity from PHA-blastogenesis, but both are useful, in complementary fashion, to estimate the antitumor immunocompetence.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D005260:Female; D007121:Immunocompetence; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation; D008325:Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D009929:Organ Size; D010835:Phytohemagglutinins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013154:Spleen / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000276:immunology; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D010835:Phytohemagglutinins