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Cancer Immunol Immunother. 1985;19(2):154-7. doi: 10.1007/BF00199725.

The effects of thymic epithelial monolayer-conditioned medium on suppressor cell function following chemotherapy in pediatric patients.

Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII

M S Borzy, D Ridgway

PMID: 3157439 DOI: 10.1007/BF00199725

Abstract

Human thymic epithelial monolayer-conditioned medium (TEM-CM) enhanced concanavalin A (ConA)-induced suppressor T-lymphocyte activity in 15 of 17 studies of fractionated light-density bone marrow mononuclear cells (LD-BMMC) obtained from pediatric cancer patients within 7 days of chemotherapy (P less than 0.001). However, TEM-CM depressed ConA-induced suppressor T-lymphocyte activity in 14 of 18 studies of LD-BMMC obtained from patients who had received their chemotherapy 14-21 days previously (P less than 0.05). In studies of LD-BMMC from normal subjects, TEM-CM did not show any significant effect on suppressor cell activity, nor did TEM-CM significantly affect spontaneous suppressor cell activity in patients or normals. The effect of direct culture on thymic epithelial monolayers was equivalent to the effect of TEM-CM in both ConA-induced and spontaneous suppressor cell assays. These data demonstrate thymic factor-mediated changes in suppressor T-cell activity of pediatric cancer patients and suggest a postchemotherapy alteration in the bone marrow population of inducible prethymic T cells.

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