Inhibition of cell-mediated cytotoxicity to chemically induced rat tumours by soluble tumour and embryo cell extracts

Int J Cancer. 1976 Jan 15;17(1):129-37. doi: 10.1002/ijc.2910170117.

Abstract

When lymph-node and spleen cells from rats bearing or immunized against aminoazo dye-induced rat hepatomas or 3-methylcholanthrene-induced rat sarcomas were pretreated with 3 M KCl extracts of these tumors, their cytotoxicity for cultured cells from the corresponding tumour was specificially inhibited. In cross-test combinations of target tumour and tumour-bearer effector-cell donor, tumour extracts only inhibited cytotoxic responses when they were derived from the tumour homologous to the target-cell and not when the extract was from the tumour borne by the effector-cell donor. One component of the tumour-bearer cytotoxic response was shown to be directed against tumour-associated embryonic antigens since soluble extracts of embryos or tumour extracts containing embryonic antigens inhibited tumour-bearer cell-mediated cytotoxicity in both specific and cross-test combinations of target tumour and effector cells. These findings are discussed in relation to tumour antigen expression and the immune responses that these tumour-associated antigens may evoke in tumour-bearing rats.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antigens, Neoplasm*
  • Azo Compounds
  • Carcinoembryonic Antigen*
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / chemically induced
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / immunology*
  • Cell Line
  • Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic
  • Immunity, Cellular*
  • Liver Neoplasms / chemically induced
  • Liver Neoplasms / immunology*
  • Lymph Nodes / immunology
  • Methylcholanthrene
  • Neoplasms, Experimental / immunology
  • Rats
  • Sarcoma, Experimental / chemically induced
  • Sarcoma, Experimental / immunology*
  • Spleen / immunology

Substances

  • Antigens, Neoplasm
  • Azo Compounds
  • Carcinoembryonic Antigen
  • Methylcholanthrene