Adoptive immunotherapy of advanced melanoma patients with interleukin-2 (IL-2) and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes selected in vitro with low doses of IL-2.

Autor: Arienti, Flavio, Belli, Filiberto, Rivoltini, Licia, Gambacorti-Passerini, Carlo, Furlan, Luigi, Mascheroni, Luigi, Prada, Augusto, Rizzi, Maurilia, Marchesi, Edoardo, Vaglini, Maurizio, Parmiani, Giorgio, Cascinelli, Natale
Zdroj: Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy; Sep1993, Vol. 36 Issue 5, p315-322, 8p
Abstrakt: Freshly isolated tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) from stage IV melanoma patients were cultured for 2 weeks with low doses of interleukin-2 (IL-2; 120 IU/ml), to select potentially for tumor-specific lymphocytes present in the neoplastic lesion, followed by high doses (6000 IU/ml) to achieve lymphocyte expansion. TIL were serially analyzed for their expansion, phenotype and cytotoxic activity against autologous and allogeneic tumor cells. A preferential lysis of autologous melanoma cells was obtained in long-term cultures of 7/13 cases (54%), while the remaining ones showed a major-histocompatibility-complex-unrestricted, lymphokine-activated-killer(LAK)-like activity at the time of in vivo injection. Sixteen patients with metastatic melanoma were infused with TIL (mean number: 6.8×10, range: 0.35 × 10−20 × 10) and IL-2 (mean dose: 130 × 10 IU, range: 28.8 × 10−231 × 10 IU); 1 complete and 3 partial responses were observed in 12 evaluable patients (response rate 33%). In all responding patients, injected TIL showed an in vitro preferential lysis of autologous tumor cells, while in no cases were TIL with LAK-like activity associated with a clinical response. The mean autologous tumor cytotoxic activity of TIL at the time of in vivo injection was significantly higher in responding patients in comparison to nonresponding ones, suggesting that a marked and preferential cytolysis of autologous tumor cells is associated with the therapeutic efficacy of TIL. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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