title: GM-CSF secretion in primary cultures of normal and cancerous human renal cells.
abstract: Rates of secretion of granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) were measured in 50 primary cell cultures derived from cancerous and normal human kidneys. Mean rates of GM-CSF secretion measured by TF-1 cell proliferation assay (N = 21) and by ELISA (N = 31) were 2.5 and 7.8 ng/10(6) cells/24 hr, respectively. There was no significant difference between the mean rates of GM-CSF secretion by cancerous and normal renal cells. GM-CSF was also secreted by primary renal cell cultures grown in serum-free medium and by renal cell lines. GM-CSF mRNA was detected by RT-PCR in cultured renal cells, but not in undissociated kidney tissue. Rates of GM-CSF secretion were reduced up to 99% under conditions where the cellular density or substratum more closely resembled the in vivo environment. Some cultured human renal carcinoma cells (RCC) secreted GM-CSF at levels that occasionally overlapped the levels produced by the GM-CSF gene-modified human RCC vaccine now in phase I trial. The data indicate that GM-CSF is not expressed in vivo, and that stable GM-CSF secretion is induced by the dissociation and culture of human renal cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of New Mexico Health Science Center, Albuquerque, USA.
authors.forename: N D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Stephens
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Barton
authors.forename: A Y
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Paul
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Neidhart
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Griffith
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell; D002452:Cell Count; D002460:Cell Line / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D007375:Interleukin-1 / Q000378:metabolism; D007668:Kidney / Q000166:cytology*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D007375:Interleukin-1; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor