title: Role of polymorphonuclear leukocytes in the resistance of tumor-bearing mice against Candida albicans infection.
abstract: Tumor-bearing mice showed a significant resistance against Candida albicans intravenous infection. Longer survival was observed in groups of mice inoculated with fungal cells 2-3 weeks after tumor transplantation with allogeneic sarcoma 180, syngeneic methylcholanthrene-induced Meth A fibrosarcoma, and MM 46 mammary carcinoma than in non-tumor-bearing mice inoculated only with fungal cells. This effect was not observed when the mice were infected only 1 week after tumor transplantation. A significant decrease in the number of C. albicans cells in the kidneys was observed in mice inoculated with fungal cells 2-3 weeks after tumor transplantation. In the tumor-bearing mice treated with cyclophosphamide (CY), a remarkable decrease in both the number of peripheral blood polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) and the defense against challenge with C. albicans cells was observed, as compared with the CY-untreated groups (normal and tumor-bearing mice). A marked increase in the calcium concentration in serum and number, candidacidal activity, active oxygen level, and myeloperoxidase activity of PMNs was observed in the 2-3-week tumor-bearing mice. From these results, it is suggested that PMNs, which accumulated in the 2-3-week tumor-bearing mice, play an important role in the protection from C. albicans infection by increasing the number and the types of killing factors.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Hygienic Chemistry, Tohoku Pharmaceutical University, Miyagi, Japan. okawa@tohoku-pharm.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yoshio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okawa
authors.forename: Makiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Kazuhiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: Masuko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suzuki
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002176:Candida albicans / Q000276:immunology; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000276:immunology*; D005354:Fibrosarcoma / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D008325:Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000276:immunology*; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000276:immunology*; D012510:Sarcoma 180 / Q000276:immunology*; D023041:Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays / Q000379:methods