title: Inhibitory effect on monocyte-mediated cytotoxicity of sera from patients with multiple myeloma and malignant lymphoma.
abstract: There was no difference in monocyte-mediated cytotoxicity between monocytes from patients with multiple myeloma or malignant lymphomas and monocytes from control persons after in vitro culture for 5 d. Cytostatic and cytolytic ability of lymphokine-activated monocytes cultured in medium with patient serum was significantly depressed compared to the ability of monocytes cultured with normal serum. A similar depression of cytostasis was found with non-activated monocytes of both patient and control origin. Sera from myeloma and lymphoma patients impaired the monocyte-mediated cytotoxicity equally.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008222:Lymphokines / Q000494:pharmacology; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009000:Monocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D008222:Lymphokines