title: Induction of mixed allogeneic chimerism for leukemia.
abstract: Hybrid (C56BL/6 x DBA) (BDF1; H-2b/H-2d) mice bearing the P815 leukemia (H-2d) were grafted with a (CBA x C57BL/6)F1 (CBF1; H-2k/H-2b) cell suspension, comprising bone marrow cells (BMC; 25 x 10(6)/mouse) and spleen cells (SC; 55 x 10(6)/mouse) on day-4, then treated with cyclophosphamide (200 mg/kg) on day-2 and finally grafted once more with CBF1 cells (25 x 10(6) BMC + 7 x 10(6) SC) on day 0. Allogeneic cell graftings performed in this way induced durable mixed hematopoietic chimerism and significantly prolonged the survival of recipients, compared with that of leukemia-bearers grafted with syngeneic cells. The results obtained raise the possibility of using allogeneic hematopoietic tissue transplantation in combination with non-lethal cytoreductive therapy to induce a long-lasting graft-vs-leukemia effect.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Immunology, Institute of Clinical Immunology, Novosibirsk, Russia.
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Seledtsov
authors.forename: G V
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Seledtsova
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Avdeev
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Samarin
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Kozlov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006087:Graft vs Host Reaction / Q000276:immunology*; D007942:Leukemia, Experimental / Q000276:immunology*; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008808:Mice, Inbred CBA; D008811:Mice, Inbred DBA; D018183:Transplantation Chimera; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured