title: Intracerebral adoptive immunotherapy of a murine lymphoma antigenically altered by drug treatment in vivo.
abstract: Intracerebral tumor neutralization assay and adoptive immunotherapy with in vivo sensitized lymphocytes were done in immunodepressed mice challenged intracerebrally with L5178Y/DTIC lymphoma, a tumor subline antigenically altered by treatment with 5-(3,3-dimethyl-1-triazenyl)-1H-imidazole-4-carboxamide (DTIC) in vivo. Primary cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTL) were generated in vitro against L5178Y/DTIC cells with the use of splenocytes of histocompatible (BALB/cCr X DBA/2Cr)F1 donors. The extent of antitumor activity of CTL was evaluated by the measurement of tumor cell proliferation in the brain, as judged by the 125I-labeled 2'-deoxyuridine uptake values and by survival times of recipient mice. The results of the experiments showed: a) CTL were highly effective in inhibiting tumor growth when they were injected along with L5178Y/DTIC tumor cells in a Winn-type neutralization assay; b) the tumor inhibition mediated by CTL was specific, since no antilymphoma effects were detected when CTL sensitized against L5178Y/DTIC line were admixed with the parental L5178Y tumor or with other unrelated lymphoma cells; and c) local adoptive immunotherapy with CTL given on day 1, 3, or 5 after the intracerebral challenge with L5178Y/DTIC lymphoma substantially impaired tumor cell proliferation and significantly increased survival times of recipient leukemic mice.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D003606:Dacarbazine / Q000494:pharmacology; D007114:Immunization; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D009374:Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000628:therapy; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000187:drug effects / Q000637:transplantation*; D014916:Whole-Body Irradiation
chemical_list: D003606:Dacarbazine