Abstract
Blood lymphocytes from 47 patients with lung carcinoma have been tested for cytotoxicity against cells isolated from the autologous tumour. Significant cytotoxic potential was found in 15 cases. The effectors were also tested against allogeneic tumour targets from lung and other sites. Reactions were only rarely detected (2/32 positive against lung and 1/13 positive against non-lung cells). The restriction of cytotoxicity to the autologous combination was also apparent in in vitro-generated effectors. Blood lymphocytes were co-cultivated with autologous tumour and subsequently tested against autologous or allogeneic targets. Cytotoxicity was found in 13/17 lung tumours against autologous tumour, with no reactions recorded against allogeneic tumour targets, but one case positive against the K562 cell line. These data suggest either the expression of individually distinct antigens on human pulmonary neoplasms, or the requirement for histocompatibility between target and effector in cytotoxicity reactions in man, and therefore differ from previously described patterns of lymphocytotoxicity against human tumours.
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Vose, B., Vánky, F., Fopp, M. et al. Restricted autologous lymphocytotoxicity in lung neoplasia. Br J Cancer 38, 375–381 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1978.217
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