PMID- 1535772 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19920805 LR - 20041117 IS - 0250-7005 (Print) IS - 0250-7005 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 3 DP - 1992 May-Jun TI - Relationships for recombinant interleukin-2-stimulated mixed lymphocyte tumor extract reaction between peripheral blood lymphocytes and regional node lymphocytes in gastric cancer patients. PG - 927-32 AB - To investigate the relationship between "systemic" antitumor immunity and "local" antitumor immunity with respect to the histopathological stage of gastric cancer, interleukin-2 stimulated mixed lymphocyte tumor extract reactions (ILS-MLTR) of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) and regional node lymphocytes (RNL) were evaluated in 59 gastric cancer patients. ILS-MLTRs of both PBL and RNL decreased with the advance of cancer stage, but ILS-MLTRs of PBL were always lower than those of RNL. Positive correlations in MLTR between PBL and RNL were found in patients with depth of invasion to muscularis propria and serosa and peritoneal dissemination. Inverse correlations between PBL and RNL were noted in patients with stage IV and distant nodal involvement. These results suggest that variations in the anticancer immunities might be effectively managed by an immunotherapy which is designed according to the responsiveness in the immune parameter ILS-MLTR. FAU - Tseng, C C AU - Tseng CC AD - First Department of Surgery, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Japan. FAU - Nio, Y AU - Nio Y FAU - Tsubono, M AU - Tsubono M FAU - Fukumoto, M AU - Fukumoto M FAU - Tobe, T AU - Tobe T LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - Greece TA - Anticancer Res JT - Anticancer research JID - 8102988 RN - 0 (Interleukin-2) RN - 0 (Recombinant Proteins) RN - 0 (Tissue Extracts) SB - IM MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Interleukin-2/*pharmacology MH - Lymph Nodes/*immunology/pathology MH - Lymphocyte Culture Test, Mixed MH - Lymphocytes/drug effects/*immunology MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Neoplasm Invasiveness MH - Neoplasm Staging MH - Recombinant Proteins/pharmacology MH - Stomach Neoplasms/*immunology/pathology MH - Tissue Extracts/immunology EDAT- 1992/05/01 00:00 MHDA- 1992/05/01 00:01 CRDT- 1992/05/01 00:00 PHST- 1992/05/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1992/05/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1992/05/01 00:00 [entrez] PST - ppublish SO - Anticancer Res. 1992 May-Jun;12(3):927-32.