Abstract
A phenomenon by which pre-irradiation of the abdomen of mice reduced the lung-colony-forming efficiency of i.v.-injected tumour cells is described. The extent of lung-colony inhibition was shown to depend on both the dose and timing of abdominal irradiation. The maximum inhibitory effect was obtained when mice received 1200 rad gamma-irradiation to the abdomen 5--7 days before tumour-cell challenge, but there was no effect when abdominal irradiation was given 1 or greater than or equal to 14 days before challenge, or when radiation doses were less than 600 rad. In mice less than 3 weeks old, the effect was much less marked than in adults. The target tissue which, when irradiated, exerted the inhibitory influence on lung-colony formation was located in the ventral half of the abdomen in all 4 quadrants, and was probably gut. Radioactively labelled tumour cells were arrested normally in the lungs of irradiated mice, but were cleared more rapidly without evidence of sequestration in the irradiated gut. The most plausible mechanism seems to be that irradiation of the gut induces the production of natrual killer cells with anti-tumour activity, though this has not been conclusively established.
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