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Combined effect of x irradiation and cell-mediated immune reaction. [Mastocytoma P815-X2 cells from DBA mice and cytotoxic splenic lymphocytes from C57B1 mice were used as target cells and immune cells, respectively]

Journal Article · · Radiat. Res.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2307/3574845· OSTI ID:6858930
The combined effect of radiation and cell-mediated immune reaction on tumor cells was investigated in vitro. Mastocytoma P815-X2 cells of DBA mice either were irradiated first and subjected to immune lysis by immune splenic lymphocytes of C57Bl mice, or the tumor cells were subjected to immune reaction first and then irradiated. Cell survival was quantitated by colony formation in soft agar medium. It was observed that cellular immune damage to tumor cells did not influence the response of tumor cells to subsequent radiation. Irradiation of tumor cells first, followed by subjection of the cells to cellular immune reaction, slightly enhanced the death of the tumor cells. It appears that this enhanced death might have resulted from a relative increase in the ratio of the number of cytotoxic immune cells to the number of target tumor cells in the incubation mixture as a consequence of the decrease in the number of viable tumor cells by radiation.
Research Organization:
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis
OSTI ID:
6858930
Journal Information:
Radiat. Res.; (United States), Journal Name: Radiat. Res.; (United States) Vol. 75:3; ISSN RAREA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English