Article
Effector function of lymphokine-activated killer cells and cytotoxic T lymphocytes in ovarian epithelial carcinoma.
Gynecologic oncology - 1 Aug 1990
Lentz S S, Kovach J S, McKean D J, Wieand H S, Podratz K C
Abstract excerpt
From 20 patients with ovarian carcinoma (4 with stage I and 16 with stage III disease), we obtained peripheral blood mononuclear cells (MNC) from each, tumor-associated MNC from 9, and ascitic MNC from 6. These cells were stimulated with interleukin 2 (IL-2), and radioactive chromium-release cyto...
Topics
- Ascitic Fluid
- Carcinoma
- Cells, Cultured
- Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic
- Endometriosis
- Female
- Humans
- In Vitro Techniques
- Interleukin-2
- Killer Cells, Lymphokine-Activated
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear
- Ovarian Neoplasms
- Phenotype
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic