Splenectomy, suppressor cell activity, and survival in tumor bearing rats.
Splenectomy, suppressor cell activity, and survival in tumor bearing rats.
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脾切除术、抑制细胞活性和荷瘤大鼠的存活。
DOI:
10.1016/0022-4804(80)90021-9
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发表时间:
1980
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J. Meyer
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作者:
J. Meyer;B. Argyris;J. Meyer
Young female rats of the Fischer strain were subjected to splenectomy at 10 weeks of age. Three weeks later, these animals and a comparable group of intact animals were inoculated subcutaneously with 3 × 106cells of the syngeneic Ward colon carcinoma. Tumor growth was recorded by serial measurement. Lymph node cells from control, intact tumor-bearing, and asplenic tumor-bearing animals were tested for reactivity in mixed lymphocyte culture (MLC) and for ability to suppress the allogeneic mixed lymphocyte reaction. At 3 weeks after tumor inoculation, lymphocyte reactivity in MLC was somewhat depressed in asplenic tumor-bearing hosts but severely depressed in intact hosts (P< 0.001); suppressor activity was demonstrable in intact hosts but not in asplenic hosts (P< 0.001). At 5 weeks, lymphocyte reactivity in MLC was severely depressed in both groups; suppressor cell activity was present in both groups and differences were no longer significant. Median survival of intact tumor-bearing animals was 97 days after inoculation (P< 0.0001 by the log-rank test), and 120 days in asplenic animals (P< 0.001). We conclude that both depression of lymphocyte reactivity and onset of suppressor activity are delayed in asplenic tumor-bearing animals. Host survival was significantly prolonged.