{"title":"Immunobiology of cancer and AIDS. Etiology, diagnosis, and management. Selected papers presented at the First International Symposium on Immunobiology of Cancer and Allied Immune Dysfunctions. Copenhagen, Denmark.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77685,"journal":{"name":"Cancer detection and prevention. Supplement : official publication of the International Society for Preventive Oncology, Inc","volume":"1 ","pages":"1-647"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14603916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R Ruffmann, E Schlick, T Tartaris, W Budzynski, M A Chirigos
{"title":"Protein deficiency reduces natural antitumor immunity.","authors":"R Ruffmann, E Schlick, T Tartaris, W Budzynski, M A Chirigos","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Clinical data have shown that neoplastic diseases and/or related therapies frequently result in protein depletion of tumor-bearing patients. Depressions of acquired and specific immunity caused by protein depletion are well known. In an experimental model protein depletion was induced by lack of nutritional protein in otherwise isocaloric conditions in BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice over various time periods (max. 35 days). The results show that natural immune effector cells, natural killer cells, and monocyte/macrophages also during treatment with biological response modifiers (BRM) are depressed in their cytotoxic potentials in vitro and in vivo. Substantial and critical reductions of bone marrow cellularity (bone marrow nucleated cells) were also observed. In contrast, preliminary results show that if, following protein depletion, mice were treated parenterally with amino acids (Neo-aminomel, Boehringer-Ma. Co., FRG) complete restoration of immune parameters takes place. Adequate protein status is shown to be a crucial factor for natural immunity and therapy with BRM.</p>","PeriodicalId":77685,"journal":{"name":"Cancer detection and prevention. Supplement : official publication of the International Society for Preventive Oncology, Inc","volume":"1 ","pages":"15-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14252262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S Costa, A D'Errico, W F Grigioni, C Orlandi, C C Smith, A M Mancini, L Aurelian
{"title":"Monoclonal antibody to HSV2 protein as an immunodiagnostic marker in cervical cancer.","authors":"S Costa, A D'Errico, W F Grigioni, C Orlandi, C C Smith, A M Mancini, L Aurelian","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study was designed to evaluate the possible use of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) as diagnostic adjuncts to exfoliative cytology and tissue sections in intraepithelial (CIN) and invasive cervical cancer. Specimens were collected from 42 patients with various degrees of CIN, 15 patients with invasive cancer and two patients with condylomatous changes only. mAb H17, that recognizes a herpes simplex virus protein (ICP) representing a component of the viral ribonucleotide reductase, stained atypical exfoliated cells from 55% of patients with mild dysplasia and 100% of those with more severe lesions. The mean percentage of positive atypical cells increased as a function of the grading of CIN (32.6 +/- 6.3%, 63.5 +/- 2.7%, 67.9 +/- 8.1%, 81.4 +/- 10.1%, and 85.6 +/- 2.0% for mild, moderate, and marked dysplasia, CIS, and invasive cancer, respectively). Only a very small proportion of atypical cells from only two patients stained with a mAb to another herpes simplex virus protein (gA/B). Normal squamous, metaplastic, inflammatory, or koilocytotic cells did not stain with the mAbs. Of the 15 cases examined by cryostatic fresh sections with immunohistochemical techniques, only one case of invasive cancer did not stain with mAb anti-ICP, and all controls were negative. The high specificity and sensitivity of MAbH17 suggests that it may be a useful diagnostic/prognostic marker in CIN.</p>","PeriodicalId":77685,"journal":{"name":"Cancer detection and prevention. Supplement : official publication of the International Society for Preventive Oncology, Inc","volume":"1 ","pages":"189-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13963926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immunotoxicology: environmental contamination by polybrominated biphenyls and immune dysfunction among residents of the State of Michigan.","authors":"J G Bekesi, J P Roboz, A Fischbein, P Mason","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1973, inadvertent contamination occurred in a special farm feed supplement for lactating cows. Polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs) were used in place of magnesium oxide resulting in serious harm to farm animals, including cattle, chickens, geese, ducks. Farm families, accustomed to eating their own products, were most heavily exposed. To study the impact of PBBs, 336 adult Michigan farm residents, 117 general consumers for comparison, 75 dairy farm residents in Wisconsin, who had not eaten PBB-contaminated food, were examined, as were 79 healthy subjects in New York City. Abnormalities in the Michigan groups included hypergammaglobulinemia, exaggerated hypersensitive response to streptococci, significant decrease in absolute numbers and percentage of T and B-lymphocytes, and increased number of lymphocytes with no detectable surface markers (\"null cells\"). Significant reduction of in vitro immune function was noted in 20-25% of the Michigan farm residents who had eaten food containing PBB. The decreased immune function detected among the PBB-exposed farm residents tended to affect families as a unit and was independent of exposed individuals' age or sex, pointing against the possibility of genetic predisposition.</p>","PeriodicalId":77685,"journal":{"name":"Cancer detection and prevention. Supplement : official publication of the International Society for Preventive Oncology, Inc","volume":"1 ","pages":"29-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13963928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of CEA polyclonal antibodies, CEA monoclonal antibodies, tissue polypeptide antigen in the sera of supposedly healthy individuals.","authors":"E P Pluygers, M P Beauduin, P E Baldewyns","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Serum determinations of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) using both polyclonal antibodies (PAbs) and monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) were carried out in 348 supposedly healthy screenees. A correlation of the two CEA-detection methods was observed for MAb values higher than 0.5 ng/ml, but not for the lower MAb values that failed to detect CEA. Of 162 such cases (46.5% of the total population that were screened by MAbs), only 39 (11.2%) remained undetected by PAbs, with values as high as 3-4 ng/ml. CEA PAbs thus enabled a more subtle analysis of values in the lower range, a potentially useful factor in screening. In 18 screenees (5.1%) the values were above 2 SD of the mean by MAbs against 13 by PAbs; values above 3 SD were present in three by MAbs and in none by PAbs. In 14 of 18 cases high CEA values were related to smoking and to chronic gastrointestinal disease. The suggested specificity of CEA MAbs for cancer cells thus could not be confirmed because no cancer was detected in this series. Elevated tissue polypeptide antigen values were observed in 14 individuals and were not correlated with either CEA or smoking. Estrogens and estrogen-progestogens were administered to five females whereas four males had gynecomasty, and in three cases leukemia was reported among close relatives.</p>","PeriodicalId":77685,"journal":{"name":"Cancer detection and prevention. Supplement : official publication of the International Society for Preventive Oncology, Inc","volume":"1 ","pages":"231-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14602803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R Heinsohn, C R Seitz, A C Hollinshead, W Hyun, A Poschmann
{"title":"Screening of hybridoma supernatants raised against membrane fractions from breast cancer using an immunodot assay.","authors":"R Heinsohn, C R Seitz, A C Hollinshead, W Hyun, A Poschmann","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Membranes were prepared from mammary tumors and fractionized using gel filtration and gradient polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. To obtain monoclonal antibodies against tumor-associated antigens, mice were immunized against membrane fraction 2a. After hybridization, we obtained 746 hybridoma cell lines. We performed the immunodot assay for screening. Every supernatant was tested against 15 antigens. Eight antigens were purified fractions from tumor membrane preparation, and five were crude membrane preparations from benign and malignant breast cell lines. Additionally, the Thomsen-Friedenreich antigen of erythrocytes was tested. We selected 83 hybridomas for further characterization.</p>","PeriodicalId":77685,"journal":{"name":"Cancer detection and prevention. Supplement : official publication of the International Society for Preventive Oncology, Inc","volume":"1 ","pages":"235-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14602804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M V Pimm, N C Armitage, K Ballantyne, R W Baldwin, A C Perkins, L G Durrant, M C Garnett, J D Hardcastle
{"title":"Imaging of primary and metastatic colorectal carcinoma with monoclonal antibody 791T/36 and the therapeutic potential of antibody-drug conjugates.","authors":"M V Pimm, N C Armitage, K Ballantyne, R W Baldwin, A C Perkins, L G Durrant, M C Garnett, J D Hardcastle","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Monoclonal antibody 791T/36, prepared against a tumour-associated 72,000 dalton glycoprotein, reacted with cells from primary and metastatic colorectal carcinomas. I-131 or In-111-labelled antibody localized in xenografts of colorectal carcinomas established from in vitro clonogenic populations. Clinically, with I-131-labelled antibody, 8/11 colonic tumours imaged positively. Imaging was negative in four patients with benign colon disease. 5/11 rectal tumours were positively imaged, but excreted I-131 in the bladder obscured tumours in several studies. In-111-labelled antibody gave superior images and positively imaged primary and metastatic sites in 13/14 patients. Prospectively in the detection of recurrent disease, I-131 or In-111-antibody detected 29/33 separate sites in 24 patients. Seven negative patients remain disease free. There were 3 false positives; overall sensitivity was 88%, with 70% specificity. Specific localization of radiolabel was confirmed immunochemically and by counting radioactivity in resected specimens. Antibody conjugates with methotrexate, vindesine and daunomycin retained drug activity and antibody function, including xenograft localization and conjugates were therapeutically effective against xenografts. 791T/36 antibody has potential for immunodetection of primary and recurrent colorectal carcinoma and for targeting of therapeutic agents.</p>","PeriodicalId":77685,"journal":{"name":"Cancer detection and prevention. Supplement : official publication of the International Society for Preventive Oncology, Inc","volume":"1 ","pages":"249-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14602806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D L Fine, R Shoemaker, A Gazdar, J G Mayo, O Fodstad, M R Boyd, B J Abbott, P A Donovan
{"title":"Metastasis models for human tumors in athymic mice: useful models for drug development.","authors":"D L Fine, R Shoemaker, A Gazdar, J G Mayo, O Fodstad, M R Boyd, B J Abbott, P A Donovan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although human tumor xenografts have been extensively used for preclinical evaluation of antitumor agents, most of this work has utilized subcutaneous or subrenal capsule assays based on change in tumor size. To obtain experimental models more reflective of the human clinical situations, we have developed several metastatic models that are based on and complement a panel of cell strains used in large-scale in vitro drug screening. One melanoma and four lung tumors produced metastatic lesions in the lung within 60 days following subcutaneous, intraperitoneal, or intrasplenic inoculation of BALB/C athymic nude mice. Several tumors also produced liver lesions, and one lung tumor strain showed metastasis to the brain. The metastatic lesions histologically resembled the tumors that grew at the inoculation site. In vitro and in vivo cell strains were rederived from the metastatic lesions. These systems may provide practical models for experimental drug and immunotherapeutic trials.</p>","PeriodicalId":77685,"journal":{"name":"Cancer detection and prevention. Supplement : official publication of the International Society for Preventive Oncology, Inc","volume":"1 ","pages":"291-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14602807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M A Chirigos, T Saito, J E Talmadge, W Budzynski, E Gruys
{"title":"Cell regulatory and immunorestorative activity of picibanil (OK432).","authors":"M A Chirigos, T Saito, J E Talmadge, W Budzynski, E Gruys","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Picibanil (OK432), a pharmaceutical preparation of a low virulent Su strain of Streptococcus pyogenes, possesses cell regulatory activity particularly in its ability to augment natural killer (NK) cell activity and to activate macrophages to exert a tumoricidal effect both in vitro and in vivo. It is effective in retarding and/or inhibiting the growth of three different tumors: MBL-2 lymphoma, M109 alveolar adenocarcinoma, and B16 melanoma. The antitumor effect is mediated through regulation of NK cells and macrophages, possibly by its ability to stimulate the production and secretion of interferon and interleukin 1 and 2. It is a very effective adjuvant for tumor cell vaccines that elicit cytotoxic T-cell responses. Following cytoreductive chemotherapy (Cytoxan) Picibanil treatment leads to an earlier reconstitution of both bone marrow cellularity and differentiation to granulocyte-macrophage colonies.</p>","PeriodicalId":77685,"journal":{"name":"Cancer detection and prevention. Supplement : official publication of the International Society for Preventive Oncology, Inc","volume":"1 ","pages":"317-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14602809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impaired natural killer cytotoxicity during recrudescence of recurrent herpes simplex virus type 1 infection.","authors":"Y C Kuo, C Y Lin, S F Cheng, C C Lin, W T Liu","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigated natural killer (NK) cytotoxicity in patients with recurrent herpes infection by using K562 cells infected with Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) as target. The NK cytotoxicity was lower than during convalescence and in controls during recrudescence (0 to 3 days postonset of clinical symptoms; P less than 0.001). In the convalescent phase (4 to 14 days postonset of symptoms) the NK cytotoxicity was significantly higher than in controls (P less than 0.05). These results suggest that low NK cytotoxicity is related to the recurrence of herpes.</p>","PeriodicalId":77685,"journal":{"name":"Cancer detection and prevention. Supplement : official publication of the International Society for Preventive Oncology, Inc","volume":"1 ","pages":"51-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14604686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}