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. 1995 Nov;72(5):1165–1172. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1995.481

Changes in endogenous cytokines, adhesion molecules and platelets during cytokine-induced tumour necrosis.

S de Kossodo 1, R Moore 1, S Gschmeissner 1, N East 1, C Upton 1, F R Balkwill 1
PMCID: PMC2033935  PMID: 7577463

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate mechanisms of anti-tumour activity and necrosis induced by combinations of tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and interferon gamma (IFN-gamma). In a breast cancer xenograft model, locally injected recombinant human TNF-alpha arrested growth of established tumours in the absence of overt necrosis. Macroscopic necrosis occurred when rat IFN-gamma, which had no anti-tumour activity as a single agent, was given systemically. Treatment with TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma caused focal engorgement of tumour capillaries with erythrocytes, intravascular recruitment of polymorphonuclear cells and platelet adherence to the tumour vascular endothelium 4 h after the combined treatment. This was followed by destruction of tumour vascular endothelium and both necrosis and apoptosis of tumour cells. Concomitant with these changes, semiquantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis revealed the increase of stromal (murine) mRNA levels for TNF-alpha, TNF receptor 55 kDa, TNF receptor 75 kDa, intracellular adhesion molecule 1, vascular cell adhesion molecule 1, P-selectin and interleukin 6 (IL-6). Thus, the effect of the combined TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma therapy involved the selective destruction of the tumour vasculature, death of tumour cells and increased expression of a series of stromal cytokines, cytokine receptors and adhesion molecules, which could be implicated in the observed events.

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