1. Development and characterization of an interleukin-2-transduced human ovarian carcinoma tumor vaccine not expressing major histocompatibility complex molecules.
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Santin, AD, Ioli, GR, Hiserodt, JC, Manetta, A, Pecorelli, S, DiSaia, PJ, and Granger, GA
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Tumor Cells ,Cultured ,Animals ,Mice ,Inbred BALB C ,Humans ,Mice ,Mice ,Nude ,Adenocarcinoma ,Papillary ,Ovarian Neoplasms ,Receptor ,erbB-2 ,Interleukin-2 ,Vaccines ,Histocompatibility Antigens Class I ,Transfection ,Neoplasm Transplantation ,Cytotoxicity ,Immunologic ,Female ,Receptor ,ErbB-2 ,interleukin-2 ,ovarian cancer ,tumor vaccine ,Tumor Cells ,Cultured ,Inbred BALB C ,Nude ,Adenocarcinoma ,Papillary ,Receptor ,erbB-2 ,Cytotoxicity ,Immunologic ,ErbB-2 ,Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine ,Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine - Abstract
ObjectiveWe initiated studies to develop cytokine-secreting human ovarian carcinoma cells for the purpose of using these cells as vaccines for the treatment of advanced epithelial ovarian cancer.Study designA human ovarian carcinoma cell line (UCI-107) was genetically engineered to secrete the cytokine interleukin-2 by retroviral-mediated gene transduction.ResultsOne clone, termed UCI-107A IL-2 AS, constitutively secreted high levels of interleukin-2 (i.e., 2000 to 2300 pg/ml/10(5) cells per 48 hours) for > 55 passages and 8 months of study. Unlike parental- and vector-transduced cells, UCI-107A IL-2 AS cells were aneuploid and failed to express major histocompatibility complex class I and HER2/neu surface antigens. UCI-107A IL-2 AS cells were highly resistant to killing by gamma irradiation and continued to produce high levels of interleukin-2 even after irradiation with 10,000 cGy. Balb/C nude mice injected intraperitoneally with UCI 107-A IL-2 AS cells survived significantly longer than control animals, with 25% of the animals totally rejecting their tumors. UCI-107A IL-2 AS was totally resistant to killing by fresh allogeneic peripheral blood lymphocytes in four hour chromium 51 release assays but induced high levels of killing in 72-hour long-term cytotoxic assays.ConclusionThe potential use of these interleukin-2-secreting ovarian carcinoma cells as vaccines for women with advance ovarian cancer will be discussed.
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- 1996